Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Easily angered; bad-tempered.
- adj. Showing or expressing anger.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A bounding with choler or bile; bilious.
- Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger; angry: as, a choleric temper.
- Indicating or expressing anger; prompted by anger; angry: as, a choleric speech.
- Synonyms Testy, touchy, peppery, irritable.
- n. A person of a bilious or choleric temperament.
- n. A person suffering from cholera.
- Same as choleraic. Syd. Soc. Lex.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.
- adj. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
- adj. Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. quickly aroused to anger
- adj. characterized by anger
- adj. easily moved to anger
Etymologies
- Latin cholera ("bilious diseas"), from Ancient Greek χολή ("anger") with the English suffix -ic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The third temperament is called choleric; it applies to the hard-driving, “get things done” kind of person.”
Simon & Schuster: If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts?
“And in choleric wrath he left her in pursuit of the chief officer.”
“Note 196: Since Federico was born on 7 June, he was said to be of "choleric" temperament, the humor of red bile seated in the heart and given to anger and strong emotions. back”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“A food such as honey, for example, which was thought to be "choleric" and extremely "hot" in quality, could be harmful to people who were also choleric in temperament and to those who tended to have a lot of natural heat, like the young.”
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
“Objection 1: It would seem that the species of anger are unsuitably assigned by the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) where he says that some angry persons are "choleric," some "sullen," and some "ill-tempered" or "stern.”
“Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) ascribes this to "choleric" persons:”
“That is not true, of course, for in repose his face was heavy, his countenance more than ruddy; it was even of a "choleric" cast, and at times almost livid, especially when he was recovering from one of those attacks of asthma from which he habitually suffered.”
“In Greek and Roman medicine Excessive bile was supposed to produce an aggressive temperament, known as 'choleric'.”
“choleric" persons, who are angry too quickly and for any slight cause.”
“Sime thundered, the choleric blood darkening his thick bull neck.”
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