1. sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
2. suffering from lead poisoning, as a person.
3. due to absorption of lead, as bodily disorders.
< Medieval Latin sāturnīnus (dictionary.com)"Jonquil adapted to the privations and rigors of Trajikistan's inns with grinning equanimity before discovering an auberge on the side of the road to the Fissures of Fingblat, just past the three crags known as the Saturnine Yet Oversexed Sisters, whence no comely youth ever returns."
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative
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