choler

[ kol-er ]
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noun
  1. irascibility; anger; wrath; irritability.

  2. Old Physiology. yellow bile.

  1. Obsolete. biliousness.

Origin of choler

1
1350–1400; Middle English colera<Medieval Latin, Latin cholera<Greek choléracholera

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choler

/ (ˈkɒlə) /


noun
  1. anger or ill humour

  2. archaic one of the four bodily humours; yellow bile: See humour (def. 8)

  1. obsolete biliousness

Origin of choler

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C14: from Old French colère, from Medieval Latin cholera, from Latin: jaundice, cholera

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