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antisplenetic en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + splenetic.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen.
  2. (historical, literary, not-comparable) Acting against ill humor, associated with the spleen.
    • So you're Spleen. I heard all about the antisplenetic antics of your brother. I lost a brother once — that's what got me my lifetime's worth of probation. 2002, Rick Harsch, The sleep of Aborigines, page 45:
    • As David Woolley has shown, Swift engineered an advertisement for the Tub, in the Morning Post, as an antisplenetic volume. 2011, Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, Hey Presto!: Swift and the Quacks, page 154:
    • His intentions were apparently as antisplenetic as Sterne's, though his book turned out to be more genial than mirthful, and therefore decidedly less efficacious in fighting the spleen. 1975, Susan G. Auty, The comic spirit of eighteenth-century novels, page 32:

Relateds

black bile · spleen · melancholy