Brewer's: Saturnine

(3 syl.). A grave, phlegmatic disposition, dull and heavy. Astrologers affirm that such is the disposition of those who are born under the influence of the leaden planet Saturn.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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