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malanconia

malanconia

Old Spanish

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Noun

malanconia f (usually uncountable)

  1. melancholy, black bile
    • c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 7v.
      Et otroſſi es bona pora aquellas enfermedades que uienen por malanconia.
      It is also good for those illnesses that arise from black bile.
    • Idem, f. 79r.
      La ſegunda es q́ ſi beuiere oḿe della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ¬ bien.
      The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one drachma, it purges black bile soon and well.

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