choleric

How To Use choleric In A Sentence

• ‘Adding fuel to the fire’ is Culpeper's way of saying that the herb strengthens the choleric humour associated with fever.
• Piercy is a rugged soldier, cholerick, and quarrelsome, and has only the soldier's virtues, generosity and courage. Preface to Shakespeare
• Strephon appears by his Letter to be a very cholerick Lover, and irrevocably smitten with one that demurrs out of Self-Interest. Spectator, June 12, 1711
• a choleric outburst
• I. i.82 (230,5) [young squarer] A _squarer_ I take to be a cholerick, quarrelsome fellow, for in this sense Shakespeare uses the word to _square_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
• The negative side came about largely through his personality which is described as ‘occasionally choleric, quarrelsome, and given to invectives.’
• Now the wheelwright was a choleric man, and one fine afternoon, returning from a short absence, found Tom occupied with one of his pet adzes, the edge of which was fast vanishing under our hero's care. Tom Brown's Schooldays
• Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) ascribes this to "choleric" persons: Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• I know that admonition is very seldom grateful, and that authors are eminently cholerick; yet, I hope, that you, and every impartial reader, will be convinced, that I intend the benefit of the publick, and the advancement of knowledge; and that every reader, into whose hands this shall happen to fall, will rank himself among those who are to be excepted from general censure. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
• And here is an older and a better – "From a cholerick man withdraw a little: from him that saies nothing, for ever. Try Anything Twice