1. To mourn excessively. 2. To lose, forfeit, or misplace a
love token—to commission a body of water in its place. 3. To
cross an ocean and find frost gleaming on every shore. 4. To be
stricken with a sensitivity to light. 5. To follow, to ask, to
be led. 6. To play a familiar piece of music—to describe each
movement as a heralding. 7. To name, as a historian would.
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A History of Melancholia: Glossary of Terms
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