melancholize

Etymology

From melancholy + -ize, probably after French méancoliser.

verb

To make melancholy.
To be melancholy; to be consumed by sad thoughts.“Many men […] are ſo deiected many times for ſome publike iniury, […] that they dare not come abroad all their liues after, but melancholiſe in corners, and keepe in holes.”