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melancholizes

melancholizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of melancholize.

Meaning of melancholize

Verb

melancholize (third-person singular simple present melancholizes, present participle melancholizing, simple past and past participle melancholized)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make melancholy.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be melancholy; to be consumed by sad thoughts.
    • Many men […] are ſo deiected many times for ſome publike iniury, […] that they dare not come abroad all their liues after, but melancholiſe in corners, and keepe in holes.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 88

Questions about melancholizes

What is melancholizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Melancholizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of melancholize.

Words near melancholizes in the dictionary

  1. melancholish
  2. melancholist
  3. melancholists
  4. melancholize
  5. melancholized
  6. melancholizes
  7. melancholizing
  8. melanchollies
  9. melancholly
  10. melancholous
  11. melancholy

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