sanguineocholeric
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sanguine + -o- + choleric.
Adjective
[edit]sanguineocholeric (comparative more sanguineocholeric, superlative most sanguineocholeric)
- (obsolete, physiology) Having a bodily constitution characterised by sanguine and choleric humours.
- 1669–1696 (date written), John Aubrey, “Samuel Butler (161⅔–1680)”, in Andrew Clark, editor, ‘Brief Lives,’ Chiefly of Contemporaries, […], volume I (A–H), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1898, →OCLC, page 138:
- He was of a leonine-coloured haire, sanguinocholerique, middle sized, strong.