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   choler

   /ˈkɒlə/

   noun

   • 1. (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humours, identified with bile and believed to be associated with a peevish or irascible temperament.
   • ▪ anger or irascibility.

   Word Origin late Middle English (also denoting diarrhoea): from Old French colere ‘bile, anger’, from Latin cholera ‘diarrhoea’ (from Greek kholera), which in late Latin acquired the senses ‘bile or anger’, from Greek kholē ‘bile’.

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   What is the meaning of choler?

   • Pick the best words! If you've got a pig in a poke - what exactly is a... The meaning of CHOLER is yellow bile.

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   What is a choleric person?

   • People described as choleric are grouchy all the time and prone to getting into arguments, often for very little reason. The word choler comes from the medieval notion that people’s personalities are based on the balance of four different types of elemental fluids in their body, called humors.

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   What does excessive choler mean?

   • Excessive or abnormal choler regarded as a cause of disease; the disease produced by such choler; (as a count noun) a type of abnormal choler. Frequently with distinguishing word (often an adjective of colour). Now historical. In quot. 1597 as part of an extended metaphor with reference to sense A.3.

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   What is choler on black bile?

   • • The water in the marsh is hosting a fire that feeds untended like jealousy or wrath, choler on black bile. Origin choler (1300-1400) Old French colère, from Latin cholera “disease caused by bile”, from Greek, from chole “bile”; because bile was thought to cause anger choler meaning, definition, what is choler: great anger: Learn more.

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   Choler is an archaic word for yellow bile, a humor in ancient medicine, or for a state of being irritable or angry. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, etymology, and related words.

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   Choler means “anger,” but it usually refers to a kind of constant anger or near-anger—the kind that makes people have a short fuse and always get angry about something.

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   Definitions of choler. noun. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger. synonyms: yellow bile. see more. noun. anger; irritability. synonyms: anger, bile, ire. see more.

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   noun. 1. irascibility; anger; wrath; irritability. 2. old-fashioned Physiology See yellow bile.

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   Choler is a noun that means anger, irritability, or yellow bile, one of the four humors in ancient and medieval physiology. Find out more about its origin, usage, and translations in different languages.

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   Choler is an obsolete term for bile, one of the four humours in ancient and medieval physiology. It also means irritability or irascibility of temper, or a disease caused by excessive or abnormal choler.

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   Choler is a literary term for great anger, often associated with bile or jealousy. Learn more about its origin, usage and synonyms from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.