choler

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My speech to the King and my choler were the topic of the day, and I was blamed for having spoken so loudly and in such terms.

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  1. noun Anger; irritability.
  2. noun One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, thought to cause anger and bad temper when present in excess; yellow bile.
  3. noun Obsolete The quality and condition of being bilious.

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  • You may hear more than you think for All I want to know," replied Rushbrook, fiercely, for his choler was raised by the sneers of the keeper, "is, where my boy may be." —  The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook
  • To consume your own choler, as some chimneys consume their own smoke; to keep a whole Satanic School spouting, if it must spout, inaudibly, is a negative yet no slight virtue, nor one of the commonest in these times Nevertheless, we will not take upon us to say, that in the strange measure he fell upon, there was not a touch of latent Insanity; whereof indeed the actual condition of these Documents in Capricornus and Aquarius is no bad emblem. —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
  • He himself admitted later that he had given way to momentary choler, and made what amends he could by largess to the victims and their families. —  The Mayor of Troy
  • "And their army shall come and overthrow all; wherefore the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall also form a great army, and fight him," (Ptolemy Philopator against Antiochus the Great at Raphia), "and conquer; and his troops shall become insolent, and his heart shall be lifted up," (this Ptolemy desecrated the temple; Josephus): "he shall cast down many ten thousands, but he shall not be strengthened by it. —  Pascal's Pensées
  • With which words the king was in maruellous choler, and therewith said in anger: "Well then, get thee home, take that which is thine to thy selfe that which I haue of mine owne I trust will suffice me." —  Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus
 

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  1. Middle English colre, from Old French, from Latin cholera, cholera, jaundice, from Greek kholera, from kholē, bile; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also choller (spelled with ch in imitation of the L.), earlier coler, from Middle English coler, colere, colre, from Old French colere, French colère = Provencal Portuguese colera = Spanish cólera = Italian collera, anger, bile, from Latin cholera, bile, a bilious ailment, from Greek χολέρα, a bilious ailment, cholera, from χολή = Latin fel = English gall, bile: see gall. Cf. cholera, of which choler is a doublet.
 

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