splenitive

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsplɛnɪtɪv/

Adjective

splenitive (comparative more splenitive, superlative most splenitive)

(obsolete) splenetic
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
  For though I am not splenitive and rash,
  Yet have I in me something dangerous
- 1892, Thomas Nelson Page, The Old South: Essays Social and Political:
  Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant, languid Virginian — not splenitive or rash […]

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