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MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEt...

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 88 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, See also:black, and Xotii, bile)  , originally a See also:condition of the mind or See also:body due to a supposed excess of See also:black bile, also this black bile itself, one of the See also:chief " humours " of the body, which were, according to See also:medieval See also:physiology, See also:blood, phlegm, choler and See also:melancholy (see See also:HUMOUR) ; now a vague See also:term for desponding grief . From the 17th See also:century the name was used of the See also:mental disease now known as " See also:melancholia " (see See also:INSANITY), but without any reference to the supposed cause of it .

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