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Melancholia

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A form of insanity attended with morbid fancies concerning one’s family, reputation, personal safety or like matters. See 86 Pa. 92, 27 Am. Rep. 689.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In Medical Jurisprudence. A name given by the ancients to a' species of partial intellectual mania, now more generally known by the name of monomama. It bore this name because it was supposed to be always attended by dejection of mind and gloomy Ideas. See Mania.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In medical jurisprudence. A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas Webster. See Insanitt.