"melancholian" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "melancholian (plural melancholians)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects\nAnd hence you may observe in the Modern Stories of our Religious Melancholians, that they commonly pass out of one Passion into another without any manner of Reasoning and Discourse"
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      "glosses": [
        "A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic."
      ],
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  "word": "melancholian"
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      "form": "melancholians",
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        {
          "text": "1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects\nAnd hence you may observe in the Modern Stories of our Religious Melancholians, that they commonly pass out of one Passion into another without any manner of Reasoning and Discourse"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic."
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  "word": "melancholian"
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