melancholize

verb 2

Definitions

verb

1

To make melancholy.

2

To be melancholy; to be consumed by sad thoughts.

Many men […] are ſo deiected many times for ſome publike iniury, […] that they dare not come abroad all their liues after, but melancholiſe in corners, and keepe in holes.

if we be not otherwise well employed, we shall be apt, in our thoughts, to melancholize, and dote upon our mischances.

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