A variant form meaning relating to melancholy or caused by an excess of black bile.
From Latin atra bilis 'black bile' + -iar adjectival suffix. A variant spelling showing evolution of English medical terminology.
The number of variant spellings (atrabiliar, atrabilar, atrabilaire) shows how English was still unstandardized when these medical terms were borrowed from Latin and French.
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