Adjective

A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / ... / More peevish, cross, and splenetick , / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.

In fact, Gwendolen, not intending it, but intending the contrary, had offended her hostess, who, though not a splenetic or vindictive woman, had her susceptibilities.

I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases.