a. [ad. mod.L. ātrabīliāri-us (in It. atrabiliario), f. ātra bīlis: see ATRABILE and -ARY.] a. Of or pertaining to black bile; ‘applied to the renal or supra-renal glands or capsules, and to the arteries and veins by which they are supplied.’ Syd. Soc. Lex. b. = ATRABILIOUS.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Lentils, Subject to atrabiliary Distempers.
1830. Edin. Encycl., I. 839. Called renal, or suprarenal glands, and from the blackish fluid they contain atrabiliary capsules.
1839. Hooper, Med. Dict., 1179. An atrabiliary young man.
