Saturnine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy.

   “Alſo amongſt the aforeſaid living creatures, ſome are Solar, [...] the contrary, are ſuch as are Lunar, Saturnine, and Martiall, &c. [...] The Saturnine, are the ſolitary, nocturnall and ſad: as the Aſſe, camel, cat, ape, hare, mule, mouſe, mole, bear, toad, and wolfe.”

2. sıfat Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.

   “This saturnine line of thinking proceeds as the clouds overhead start to coalesce and the sky takes on its regular clothy P.M. weight.”

3. sıfat Synonym of leaden, of or related to the metal lead, associated with the planet Saturn in European alchemy.
4. sıfat Caused or affected by lead poisoning (saturnism).
5. sıfat Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).

   “Chiromancy hath theſe Aphoriſmes to foretell melancholy. [...] Tricaſſus, Corvinus, and others, in his book, thus hath it: The Saturnine line going from the Raſcetta through the hand, to Saturnes mount, and there interſected by certain little lines, argues melancholy: [...]”

6. sıfat Belonging to or resembling butterflies of the family Saturnidae.
7. sıfat Of or relating to the ancient Roman god Saturn.

   “sacrificial murder in Saturnine rites”