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choler
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Choler \Chol"er\, n. [OE. coler, F. col[`e]re anger, L. cholera a bilious complaint, fr. Gr. ? cholera, fr. ?, ?, bile. See Gall, and cf. Cholera.]
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The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.]
His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow.
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Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.
He is rash and very sudden in choler.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "bile," as one of the humors, supposed to cause irascibility or temper, from Old French colere "bile, anger," from Late Latin cholera "bile" (see cholera).
Wiktionary
n. 1 anger or irritability. 2 One of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/four%20humours of ancient physiology, also known as yellow bile.
WordNet
n. an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance]
a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance [syn: anger, ire]
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger [syn: yellow bile]
Usage examples of "choler".
This roused my choler, and taking Percy aside I told him that such a trick was unworthy of a gentleman.
It was now for more than the middle span of our allotted years that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable.
Yes or no, did I yield to the paroxysm of choler which possessed me on hearing of the engagement of Ardea and on finding that I was in the presence of that equivocal Hafner?
King had never left his apartment except in the company of Indra Sen, and while Bharata Rahon had warned him against any such independent excursion the American had not taken the suggestion seriously, believing it to have been animated solely by the choler of the Khmer prince.
It was now for more than the middle span of our allotted years that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable.
This roused my choler, and taking Percy aside I told him that such a trick was unworthy of a gentleman.
But he, not like a wearie traueilere,Their sharpe assault right boldly did rebut,And suffred not their blowes to byte him nereBut with redoubled buffes them backe did put:Whose grieued mindes, which choler did englut,Against themselues turning their wrathfull spight,Gan with new rage their shields to hew and cut.
Others were undone by the perils of the itinerant life attendant upon their pursuit of wisdom: the cholers of nature, the intemperance of wild beasts, the deprivations of disease, and the like.
Alexander, God knows, andyou know, in his rages, and his furies, and hiswraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and hisdispleasures, and his indignations, and also being alittle intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales andhis angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.
As far as the understanding of the uses of life goes, Isser Jang, for all its seasonal cholers, has the advantage over Chicago.
And if my choler had been up too, agad, there would have been mischief done, that's flat.
Galen's physiological explanation for the four temperaments had been wrong, of course, and bile, choler, blood and phlegm had now been replaced as causative agents by the ascending reticular activating system and the autonomic nervous system.
Culpepper states: 'The first shoots of the common Elder, boiled like Asparagus, and the young leaves and stalks boiled in fat broth, doth mightily carry forth phlegm and choler.
Full of his choler and his refusal of further responsibility, he geed up and sped on, rehearsing some choice things to say when his barrel-boss reproached him for his undelivered load.
The man complained furiously a second time, and then a third, speaking with choler and no respect, interjecting while she was still addressing them.