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What does atrabilious mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Having an excess of black bile.
  2. Characterized by melancholy.
  3. Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.
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He now sees what a regard they have for the health of the atrabilious South Americans.
It was his wife, Petronille, still young and passing handsome, but of atrabilious and harsh mien.
I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians.
After his conversion he made amends, though he was always the atrabilious faultfinder.
The atrabilious temperament or melancholia is, according to Aristotle, a natural disposition in which there is a preponderance of black bile over the other humours.
A plaintive hail from the rough brick coping of the bund drew his atrabilious attention.

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