Since the seventeenth century, the term melancholia has been used to in a stricter, modern meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
At least since the twelfth century, the term melancholia has been used to identify depressive illness. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Anyway, melancholia is part of the Christmas spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Picture Envy for December 24, 2004] Reference
They're not for our benefit after all: the pleasure we get from them, the sweeter form of melancholia, is a bonus. From Wordnik.com. [Why woodlands are wonderful] Reference
Freud famously argues apropos of the processes of identification involved in melancholia that 'the shadow of the object falls on the ego.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster] Reference
Is not this a manifest case of insanity, in the form known as melancholia?. From Wordnik.com. [Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881] Reference
He suffered acutely at times from what is now called the melancholia of adolescence. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.] Reference
Of course there is a fine line between what I'm calling melancholia and what society calls depression. From Wordnik.com. ['Against Happiness'] Reference
The word 'blue' has been associated with the idea of melancholia or depression since the Elizabethan era. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of the Blues] Reference
For one thing there isn't just the same kind of melancholia as in the UK. From Wordnik.com. [Disco beat] Reference
At the same time, some kind of melancholia lurks behind the nostalgic glow of not so distant history. From Wordnik.com. [Itching for Eestimaa] Reference
Or perhaps mine was a physical state, some sort of disease akin to melancholia which is a form of insanity?. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrow of Gold] Reference
(D.S. H. 8250, Path. 909) an unmarried woman without occupation, two attacks of "melancholia" at 36, and 40. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Frequently this state is accompanied by melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
After a busy social season she was liable to melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Disorders/Retardation of < as in dementia and melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Psychology for Nurses] Reference
ROZEN: Bill Murray is the prince of middle-aged melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2005] Reference
One road leads to incurable insanity, the other to curable melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
In time melancholia or mania develops, with great irritation of the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
Disorders/Transient < Nihilistic of < Fixed \ often found in melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Psychology for Nurses] Reference
About sixty per cent recover of the cases classed as melancholia and mania. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
You're going to get out of this wretched, unkempt state of melancholia at once. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
I got the band back together so we could further investigate Didi's melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Name Buttons] Reference
So she drifts into neurasthenia and has fits of crying and periods of melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
= -- This may show itself after the third month of pregnancy in the form of melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
She I hear is a very unhappy person, in danger of sinking into a permanent state of melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
She is inclined to fretfulness and melancholia by the seeming uncharitableness of fate and fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Farther and farther afield he went, staying away at nights and leaving Angela to the melancholia of her soul. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
His face with its reddish beard, now growing grey, bore an expression of deep sadness, almost of melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [L.P.M. : the end of the Great War] Reference
But whatever its cause, this sense, in more than one of the race, had developed into extreme stages of melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
There is a woman in this hospital whose suitor married some one else, and she has nervous prostration, and melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
It appeared that his wife had been terribly disfigured in a fire and was not only a semi-invalid but a victim of melancholia. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
That this is precisely what does happen under such circumstances, the voluminous literature of melancholia sufficiently proves. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
According to Perotti (1430-1480), persons who had been bitten by this reptile fell into a state of melancholia and stupefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Where hysteria, melancholia, moroseness and despondency are conspicuous factors, the preparation can be used to great advantage. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
A case of melancholia, highly illustrative of the effects in this condition of electric baths, came under my notice very recently. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
But the overwhelming tenor of both films was often one of melancholia and sadness – intentionally so, yet to very different ends. From Wordnik.com. [Cemetery Junction; Four Lions; Hot Tub Time Machine] Reference
Yet lunatics arrive and make lunacy rampant, and a whole city is left after such a visitation an asylum of melancholia -- Mad Melbourne. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
In another instance a choir soloist developed melancholia and refused to eat, and Mr. Nelson often fed her because she would eat for him. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
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