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   splenetic

   /splɪˈnɛtɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. bad-tempered; spiteful: "a splenetic rant"
   • 2. archaic term for splenic

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun denoting a person with a diseased spleen): from late Latin spleneticus, from Greek splēn (see spleen).

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   The meaning of SPLENETIC is given to melancholy. How to use splenetic in a sentence. Did you know?

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   What a sickly womanhood grows up in a nervous, feeble, neuralgic, splenetic female body! Appeals to justice were represented as the splenetic effusions of a man never to be satisfied. And the brothers laughed aloud in the splenetic bitterness of their three souls. Splenetic definition: of the spleen; splenic..

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   If you describe someone as splenetic, you mean that they easily become very angry about things.

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   Splenetic was originally used to describe anything having to do with the spleen, the blood-filtering organ in human bodies. Western medicine once attributed both physical health and personality to four "bodily humours," one of which was black bile, thought to be produced by the spleen.