cholerous
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cholerous (plural cholerouses)
- (obsolete) Of or related to choler, yellow bile; choleric
- 1658, Thomas Meriton, Love and War: A Tragedy, page 4:
- Which will accompanied be with flegmatick and cholerous humours.
- (obsolete) Angry or irritable; choleric
- 1830, Eyre Evans Crowe, The History of France, page 4:
- A cholerous soldier, jealous of his rights, struck the vase with his axe, exclaiming that the king had no right to more than fell to his allotment.
- (obsolete) Afflicted or contaminated with cholera.
- 1833, The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine, page 246:
- Persons who became ill, soon after being exposed to the influences of an atmosphere supposed to be impregnated with cholerous exhalations.