Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Melancholic

Melancholic , adjective

[Latin melancholicus, Greek {not transcribed}: compare French mélancholique.]

Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. — Prior

Melancholic , noun

1.
One affected with a gloomy state of mind. [Obsolete] — J. Spenser
2.
A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. — Clarendon