choler

[ UK /kˈə‍ʊlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an irritable petulant feeling
  2. a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
  3. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger
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How To Use choler In A Sentence

  • The innkeeper, who was a choleric gnome of poor disposition, looked out of the door. STARDUST
  • Epidemics of botulism and cholera exacted a heavy toll on waterfowl in the West.
  • Some camps will become unreachable, and there will be an increased possibility of malaria and cholera outbreaks.
  • The third temperament is called choleric; it applies to the hard-driving, “get things done” kind of person. If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts?
  • According to humoral theory, the body comprised of the four humours blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy; and pathological conditions are the result of humoral abnormalities.
  • Sir, he is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny; whose qualification shall come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Cassio. Othello, the Moore of Venice
  • Haiti ' s national public-health laboratory and the CDC identified it in late October as Vibrio cholerae O1, serotype Ogawa, biotype El Tor. Haiti
  • Improved water testing capacity has been introduced to check for cholera and other waterborne diseases.
  • In a recent incident, a particularly virulent South American strain of the bacteria vibrio parahaemoliticus, a relative of cholera, was tied to more than 400 cases of serious human illness across 13 states.
  • Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
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