spleening

Verb

spleen (third-person singular simple present spleens, present participle spleening, simple past and past participle spleened)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
   • T. Wentworth ſpleen'd the Bishop1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata
2. To annoy or irritate.
   • There had been a good deal of provocation, we have no doubt, before the republican simplicity, at which Mrs Trollope seems to have been so justly offended, was spleened into speaking of the old woman.1832, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Volume 111, page 488
3. (ambitransitive) To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.
   • It was satisfactory to a majority of the bolters, but most of the democrats spleened against him.1883, Frank Abial Flower, Life of Matthew Hale Carpenter, page 292
4. To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.
   • Nor did they only take Townes, kill such as made resistance, and rob houses, with the Licentiousnesse and Avarice of Souldiers, but with barbarous Inhumanity spared no age nor modesty; tyrannizing over the Rest and Monuments of the dead, which they spleened as much as the Living;1667, Famianus Strada, The History of the Low-Countrey Warres, page 75
5. To excise or remove.
   • That will be how we lose what we have gained, The incremental rapture at the core, Spleened of the belly's thick placental wrath, And the seed's roar.1996, William Everson, Clif Ross, William Everson: The Light the Shadow Casts, page 105

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