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 Melampode (3 syl.).Mel’ancholy Jacques (1 syl.). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Mel’ancholy.
 
Lowness of spirits, supposed at one time to arise from a redundance of black bile. (Greek, melas chol.)   1
 


 Melampode (3 syl.).Mel’ancholy Jacques (1 syl.). 

 
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