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Choler   Listen
noun
Choler  n.  
1.
The bile; formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. (Obs.) "His (Richard Hooker's) complexion... was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow."
2.
Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. "He is rash and very sudden in choler."





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"Choler" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Distinguished-looking! He threatened me, and I had him followed. He's a ward heeler. Better look him up!" His choler was driving him to extremes. He was pricked by his caller's high-bred stare of disdain. "He seems to be another apostle of the people who wants to tell me how to run my own business. Yes, you ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... stung him almost to madness, and he had great difficulty in repressing his choler. But if this slight action, heightened to importance, as it was, by the looks of the parties, roused his ire, it was nothing to what followed. Instead of restoring it to the queen, Norris, unconscious of the danger in which he stood, pressed ...
— Windsor Castle • William Harrison Ainsworth
... by fortune and suspicious love, Threaten'd with frowning wrath and jealousy, Surpris'd with fear of [151] hideous revenge, I stand aghast; but most astonied To see his choler shut in secret thoughts, And wrapt in silence of his angry soul: Upon his brows was pourtray'd ugly death; And in his eyes the fury [152] of his heart, That shone [153] as comets, menacing revenge, And cast a pale complexion on his cheeks. As when the seaman sees ...
— Tamburlaine the Great, Part I. • Christopher Marlowe
... than all this, it even assuages choler; it is an admirable cataplasm for rage. To cite a vast number of examples to prove this important truth would be superfluous. Amongst the many illustrious ones I could instance, I shall content myself to mention that of the Emperor Maximin[6], who, having been declared an enemy to the people of ...
— Ebrietatis Encomium - or, the Praise of Drunkenness • Boniface Oinophilus
... will speak. Must I give way and room to your rash choler? Shall I be frighted when ...
— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various


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