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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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Much dining-out doth breed dyspepsia, and atrabilious views are apt to be a leetle lop-sided.
The country has its eye on that knot of atrabilious Liberals whose voice is that of Jacob, but whose hands are the hands of Esau.
An atrabilious monk in his garret vented his spleen with more than usual acrimony, and the world applauded.
The atrabilious maladies to which artists were supposedly vulnerable included lovesickness and plague.
I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians.
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.

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