Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Plural form of
humor . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
humor .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word humors.
Examples
-
Early Greek physicians believed all medicine could be based on an understanding of these fluids, which they called humors.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
-
Because their diet was so healthful — Cárdenas thought chile and maize tortillas helped to cleanse and "dry out" the bad humors from the body — they rarely suffered from such maladies as "rheumatism, de ijada, urine or stomach [problems]."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
-
The name humors me since they are naming it after an event that took place in a state that pretty strongly supports Obama and the Democrats ....
-
It’s like arguing about which of the 4 humors is responsible for a cold
Department of Greenwashing: Ceci La Luna lambrusco | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
-
The human body, Hippocrates proposed, was composed of four cardinal fluids called humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
-
The human body, Hippocrates proposed, was composed of four cardinal fluids called humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
-
The human body, Hippocrates proposed, was composed of four cardinal fluids called humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
-
There were four of them, called humors, and a series of characteristics was assigned to each, but not one of them had all of its characteristics at once.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
-
That was her reward of childless matrimony, as the appreciation of her humors was his.
The Readjustment Will Irwin 1910
-
"humors" -- blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile -- and that disease was caused by the undue accumulation of some one of these humors in some organ, which it was the business of the physician to get rid of by blood - letting, blistering, purging, or other means.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.