choler

Definitions


[ˈkɒlə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humours, identified with bile and believed to be associated with a peevish or irascible temperament
(e.g: many dietary prescriptions were designed to reduce choler)


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Origin:
late Middle English (also denoting diarrhoea): from Old French colere ‘bile, anger’, from Latin cholera ‘diarrhoea’ (from Greek kholera), which in late Latin acquired the senses ‘bile or anger’, from Greek kholē ‘bile’




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