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black bile
noun
- one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing gloominess.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of black bile1
First recorded in 1790–1800
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Example Sentences
According to this celebrated theory there are four humors in the body—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
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Abscess of the liver depends upon some vice of the blood, the bile, the phlegm or the black-bile.
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But these various pursuits did not banish all her cares, or carry off all her constitutional black bile.
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These four "humours" were blood, phlegm, yellow bile (or choler), and black bile (or melancholy).
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Three days later Black, of Georgia, "poured forth his black bile" for an hour and a half.
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