Usage examples (7)

• The posture and expression remind us at once of the katatonia which is symptomatic of dementia præcox and other stuporose and melancholiac conditions in adult life.
• If a melancholiac is able to do anything he wants, whom can he accuse?
• She was as used to loneliness as a hotel melancholiac; the people they had known had drifted away to far suburbs.
• This blubberer who had followed me home in the snow, yes this insufferable melancholiac who rained his tears into my Heaven -- Mallare would have killed him.