Melancholia
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In medical jurisprudence. A name given by the ancients to a species of partial intellectual mania, now more generally known by the name of "monomania." It bore this name because it was supposed to be always attended by dejection of mind and gloomy ideas. See "Mania." MELDFEOH (Saxon). A fee paid to an informer. MELIOR (Lat.) Better.