"splenish" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more splenish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most splenish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "splenish (comparative more splenish, superlative most splenish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "spleenish"
        }
      ],
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          "parents": [
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1716, John Dryden, Miscellany Poems, page 236",
          "text": "But here your selves you must engage Somewhat to cool your splenish Rage,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Charles Saville, Synthèse de la langue anglaise, page 240",
          "text": "There is also a chancellor, —no, I mistake,— a chandler and green-grocer, with his hands full of warts; a hunch-backed cadger; a one-eyed cutler; a pudgy exciseman, who is often the worse for liquor, being fond of tippling and sotting in taps; a lubberly fuller; a limping spoffish limner; a twer, with a wen or a whelk on the tip of his nose; a stuttering plumber; a splenish quaker; a sexton, with teeth like the times of a harrow; a weazen-faced vintner; a snuffling undertaker's mute, clothed in deep mourning, and talking of nothing but hearses and palls, dirges and passing-bells.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Joseph Hall, Arnold Davenport, Collected Poems, page 62",
          "text": "O lawlesse paunch the cause of much despight, Through raunging of a currish appetite, When splenish morsels cram the gaping Maw, Withouten diets care, or trencher-law, Tho neuer haue I Salerne rimes profest To be some Ladies trencher-criticke guest;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Jessie Childs, God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England",
          "text": "His 'kinsmanly care' advanced him neither socially nor financially. He complained of being 'lugged and worried' like a baited bear and exposed to 'splenish censure'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of spleenish."
      ],
      "id": "en-splenish-en-adj--DK5kYbz",
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        [
          "spleenish",
          "spleenish#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "splenish"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more splenish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most splenish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "splenish (comparative more splenish, superlative most splenish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "spleenish"
        }
      ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English obsolete forms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1716, John Dryden, Miscellany Poems, page 236",
          "text": "But here your selves you must engage Somewhat to cool your splenish Rage,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Charles Saville, Synthèse de la langue anglaise, page 240",
          "text": "There is also a chancellor, —no, I mistake,— a chandler and green-grocer, with his hands full of warts; a hunch-backed cadger; a one-eyed cutler; a pudgy exciseman, who is often the worse for liquor, being fond of tippling and sotting in taps; a lubberly fuller; a limping spoffish limner; a twer, with a wen or a whelk on the tip of his nose; a stuttering plumber; a splenish quaker; a sexton, with teeth like the times of a harrow; a weazen-faced vintner; a snuffling undertaker's mute, clothed in deep mourning, and talking of nothing but hearses and palls, dirges and passing-bells.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Joseph Hall, Arnold Davenport, Collected Poems, page 62",
          "text": "O lawlesse paunch the cause of much despight, Through raunging of a currish appetite, When splenish morsels cram the gaping Maw, Withouten diets care, or trencher-law, Tho neuer haue I Salerne rimes profest To be some Ladies trencher-criticke guest;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Jessie Childs, God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England",
          "text": "His 'kinsmanly care' advanced him neither socially nor financially. He complained of being 'lugged and worried' like a baited bear and exposed to 'splenish censure'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of spleenish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spleenish",
          "spleenish#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "splenish"
}