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adjective
1.
sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
2.
suffering from lead poisoning, as a person.
3.
due to absorption of lead, as bodily disorders.
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Saturnine
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So is ingratiate. Does it mean:
| to establish oneself in the favor or good graces of others by deliberate effort |
| to reduce laws or rules to a code or arrange in a systematic collection |
Example Sentences
- Slow, deep curves connect this forehead to fenders containing two hooded, saturnine eyes.
- Levy is wide-shouldered and tight-suited, with careful hair and a saturnine expression.
- Between the saturnine old man and the raging orchestra, something is communicated that the camera cannot hope to capture.
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Word Origin & History
saturnine
"gloomy, morose, sluggish, grave," 1433, lit. "born under the influence of the planet Saturn," from M.E. Saturne (see Saturn). Medieval physiology believed these characteristics to be caused by the astrological influence of the planet Saturn, which was the most remote from
EXPANDthe Sun (in the limited knowledge of the times) and thus coldest and slowest in its revolution.
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saturnine sat·ur·nine (sāt'ər-nīn')
adj.
Melancholy or sullen.
Produced by absorption of lead.
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