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yellow bile

noun

  1. one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing anger; choler.


yellow bile

noun

  1. archaic.
    one of the four bodily humours, choler
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow bile1

First recorded in 1880–85
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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.

My sound, sensitive liver rests gently with its thin yellow bile in sweet content.

Another is that which they make about the secretion of yellow bile.

These four "humours" were blood, phlegm, yellow bile (or choler), and black bile (or melancholy).

All yellow-hued plants, if they were eatable, were thought to increase yellow bile.

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