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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