subs. (old).—Melancholy; SOLEMNCHOLY (q.v.).
1595. SHAKESPEARE, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 2. 27. Now, my young guest, methinks you’re ALLYCHOLLY. Ibid. (1596), Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 4. 164. She is given too much to ALLICHOLY and musing.
1736. WALPOLE, Letter to George Montagu, in Letters (1861), 30 May, I. 8. A disconsolate wood-pigeon in our grove … is so ALLICHOLY as any thing.
