Meaning of Choleric | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Senses relating to choler.
   historical
2. A person having an excess of choler, and thus having a tendency to become angry easily; preceded by the: such people collectively.
   historical
3. A person having a tendency to become angry easily; preceded by the: such people collectively.
   broadly
4. Senses relating to cholera.
5. Synonym of choleraic (“a person suffering from cholera”).
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“According to the difference of Mens Conſtitutions, ſo they have choſen various VVays, that did moſt ſute vvith their Tempers, […] The Sanguine love Pageantry; the Flegmatick, the dull return of their Forms; the Melancholy affect Severities; and the Cholerick are peeviſh and paſſionate, and think thoſe Heats that are natural to them, are Sacrifices of great value vvith God. But vvill he accept of theſe from ſuch defiled hands?”

“According as one or other of these fluids or "humours" got the upper hand in the body, did the person belong to one or other of the four recognized temperaments—the sanguine, the phlegmatic (or lymphatic), the choleric, the melancholic. Certain qualities were assumed to belong to each of these temperaments. […] The cholerics show ambition, stubbornness, love of work, courage; […]”

“[A]s Plutarch ſaith, Men are not vvoont to dravv a freſh cheeſe vvith a hooke: but as for the cholericke, they dravv not, but brooze, breake and ſhatter in peeces; and in ſtead of dravving, do thruſt off children from comming to learning.”

“[W]e ſhall produce one great group of orators, in vvhich vvill be exhibited ſpecimens of every branch of the art. You vvill have at one vievv, the choleric, the placid, the voluble, the frigid, the frothy, the turgid, the calm, and the clamorous; […]”

“But, unlike the Sanguine, the Choleric are vindictive. […] Cholerics dream of thunder and of bright, dangerous things, like arrows and fire, as Peretelote knows[…].”

“Cholerics are extremely hostile people. Some learn to control their anger, but eruption into violence is always a possibility with them. […] No one utters more caustic comments than a sarcastic choleric! He is usually reading with a cutting comment that can wither the insecure and devastate the less combative.”

“Persons laboring under pulmonary affections appear to be less liable than others, though I have found softened tubercles in some cholerics.”

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