[See Melancholy.]

1. Depressed in spirits; affected with gloom; dejected; hypochondriac. Grief indulged to excess, has a tendency to render a person melancholic.

2. Produced by melancholy; expressive of melancholy; mournful; as melancholic strains.

Just as the melancholic eye,

See fleets and armies in the sky.

3. Unhappy; unfortunate; causing sorrow; as accidents and melancholic perplexities.