English

Adjective

antisplenetic ‎(not comparable)

1. (archaic) Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen.
2. (historical or literary) Acting against ill humor, associated with the spleen.
   • 1975, Susan G. Auty, The comic spirit of eighteenth-century novels, page 32:

     His intentions were apparently as antisplenetic as Sterne's, though his book turned out to be more genial than mirthful, and therefore decidedly less efficacious in fighting the spleen.

   • 2002, Rick Harsch, The sleep of Aborigines, page 45:

     So you're Spleen. I heard all about the antisplenetic antics of your brother. I lost a brother once — that's what got me my lifetime's worth of probation.

   • 2011, Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, Hey Presto!: Swift and the Quacks, page 154:

     As David Woolley has shown, Swift engineered an advertisement for the Tub, in the Morning Post, as an antisplenetic volume.

Related terms

• spleen

See also

• black bile
• melancholy