Syn. -- Luster; brilliancy; magnifience; gorgeousness; display;
showiness; pomp; parade; grandeur.
{ Splen"drous (?), Splen"dor*ous (?) }, a. Splendid. Drayton.
Splen"e*tic (?), a. [L. spleneticus: cf. F. splénétique. See Spleen.]
Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful. "Splenetic
guffaw." G. Eliot.
You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic?
Pope.
Syn. -- Morese; gloomy; sullen; peevish; fretful.
Splen"e*tic, n. A person affected with spleen.
Sple*net"ic*al (?), a. Splenetic.
Sple*net"ic*al*ly, adv. In a splenetical manner.
Sple"ni*al (?), a. [L. splenium a plaster, a patch, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; a
bandage.] (Anat.) (a) Designating the splenial bone. (b) Of or
pertaining to the splenial bone or splenius muscle.
Splenial bone (Anat.), a thin splintlike bone on the inner side of the
proximal portion of the mandible of many vertebrates.
Sple"ni*al, n. (Anat.) The splenial bone.
Splen"ic (?), a. [L. splenicus, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;; cf. F. splénique.]
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein.
Splenic apoplexy or fever. (Med.) See Anthrax, n., 3.
Splen"ic*al (?), a. Splenic.
Splen"ish, a. Spleenish. [Obs.] Drayton.
||Sple*ni"tis (?), n.[NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; of the spleen.] (Med.)
||Inflammation of the spleen.
Splen"i*tive (?), a. Splenetic. Shak.
Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant,
languid Virginian -- not splenitive or rash.
T. N. Page.
||Sple"ni*um (?), n.[L., a plaster, a patch, from Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; a
||bandage, compress.] (Anat.) The thickened posterior border of the
||corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.
||Sple"ni*us (?), n. [NL.] (Anat.) A flat muscle of the back of the
||neck.
Splen`i*za"tion (?), n. (Med.) A morbid state of the lung produced by
inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen.
Splen"o*cele (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; spleen + &?;&?;&?; a tumor.]
(Med.) Hernia formed by the spleen.
Sple*nog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; spleen + -graphy.] A description
of the spleen.
Sple"noid (?), a.[Gr. &?;&?;&?; spleeen + -oid.] (Anat.) Resembling the
spleen; spleenlike.
Sple*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; spleen + -logy.] The branch of
science which treats of the spleen.
Sple*not"o*my (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; spleen + &?;&?;&?; to cut.] (a)
(Anat.) Dissection or anatomy of the spleen. (b) (Med.) An incision
into the spleen; removal of the spleen by incision.
Splent (?), n. 1. See Splent.