Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily angered; bad-tempered.
- adjective Archaic Having choler as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology.
- adjective Showing or expressing anger.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun A person of a bilious or choleric temperament.
- noun A person suffering from cholera.
- Same as
choleraic. Syd. Soc. Lex .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.
- adjective Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
- adjective Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.
- adjective the bilious temperament.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Easily becoming
angry . - adjective Showing or expressing
anger .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective quickly aroused to anger
- adjective characterized by anger
- adjective easily moved to anger
Etymologies
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Examples
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The third temperament is called choleric; it applies to the hard-driving, “get things done” kind of person.
If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts? Dr. Lynn Anderson 2000
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And in choleric wrath he left her in pursuit of the chief officer.
THE PLAGUE SHIP 1993
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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 2008
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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 2008
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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."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) ascribes this to "choleric" persons:
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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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.
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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 Flanders Fields and Other Poems John McCrae 1895
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In Greek and Roman medicine Excessive bile was supposed to produce an aggressive temperament, known as 'choleric'.
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"choleric" persons, who are angry too quickly and for any slight cause.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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