How To Use Choleric In A Sentence
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‘Adding fuel to the fire’ is Culpeper's way of saying that the herb strengthens the choleric humour associated with fever.
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Piercy is a rugged soldier, cholerick, and quarrelsome, and has only the soldier's virtues, generosity and courage.
Preface to Shakespeare
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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
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a choleric outburst
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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
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The negative side came about largely through his personality which is described as ‘occasionally choleric, quarrelsome, and given to invectives.’
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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
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Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) ascribes this to "choleric" persons:
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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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
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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
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No man is valianter than he is in civil company, and where he thinks no danger may come on it, and is the readiest man to fall upon a drawer and those that must not strike again: wonderful exceptious and cholerick where he sees men are loth to give him occasion, and you cannot pacify him better than by quarrelling with him.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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And in choleric wrath he left her in pursuit of the chief officer.
THE PLAGUE SHIP
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While Ralph was the choleric loser, Ed was the lucky buffoon.
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I didn't undervalue the choleric Colonel Clotho or the grim-voiced Lachesis, either; there was authority and purpose in the way they sat themselves down at either end of a table, the hooded heads facing me; from what the fat monster had said, the hidden faces must be well-known, to Americans at least.
THE NUMBERS
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The negative side came about largely through his personality which is described in as: -… occasionally choleric, quarrelsome, and given to invectives.
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-- Hor. I HAVE observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure 'till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right Understanding of an Author.
Spectator Pop-up Footnote
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After the death of Brian Johnston he seemed to abandon levity and good humour, on air at least, alternating between choleric disdain for the players he thought not good enough and an unsatisfiable appetite for contrasting the modern game in a stridently unfavourable light with the one in which he had made his name.
Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi
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My mother had been right to bank on the choleric lodger; he was an upwardly mobile man.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Rather, he is choleric in temperament: he is passionate, intemperate, and prone to rashness and anger.
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_Lord Grizzle_, extremely zealous for the | liberty of the subject, very cholerick in his | Mr JONES. temper, and in love with Huncamunca.
The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12
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What, I wondered, would that choleric gentleman have made of his decision, which was barely noted last week, to affirm rather than swear when taking his oath as First Minister at the Court of Session?
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men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing
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That is not true, of course, for in repose his face was heavy, his countenance more than ruddy; it was even of a "choleric" cast, and at times almost livid, especially when he was recovering from one of those attacks of asthma from which he habitually suffered.
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
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Objection 1: It would seem that the species of anger are unsuitably assigned by the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) where he says that some angry persons are "choleric," some "sullen," and some "ill-tempered" or "stern.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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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?
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The sanguine humour is the principal humour of the blood which embodies the other three humours: the choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic within it.
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Her mother, for instance, with her high blood pressure, her quick temper, is obviously choleric.
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Note 196: Since Federico was born on 7 June, he was said to be of "choleric" temperament, the humor of red bile seated in the heart and given to anger and strong emotions. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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In Greek and Roman medicine Excessive bile was supposed to produce an aggressive temperament, known as 'choleric'.
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
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A food such as honey, for example, which was thought to be "choleric" and extremely "hot" in quality, could be harmful to people who were also choleric in temperament and to those who tended to have a lot of natural heat, like the young.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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How did a choleric chef regain his reputation after attacking a kitchen staff?
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But the cranes make war with them continually, against which they do most courageously defend themselves; for these little ends of men and dandiprats (whom in Scotland they call whiphandles and knots of a tar-barrel) are commonly very testy and choleric.
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A surly cholerick Fellow generally makes Choice of a Bear; as Men of milder
Spectator, April 2, 1711
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This temperament the Elizabethans would have called melancholic; and Hamlet seems to be an example of it, as Lear is of a temperament mixedly choleric and sanguine.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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He saw Norfolk flush, remembered he needed a favor from the choleric human, and added placatingly, "Truth to tell, my lord, I had never noticed it either, until I saw it open, and I have accompanied the children to the pond once or twice.
This Scepter'd Isle
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The innkeeper, who was a choleric gnome of poor disposition, looked out of the door.
STARDUST
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In Churchill's darkest hour, the future PM is reduced to a choleric, drunken, melancholic old man, reviled and mocked as a warmonger by the Establishment and the British public alike.
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Sanguine relates to air, choleric to fire, melancholy to earth and phlegmatic to water.
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Black George was, in the main, a peaceable kind of fellow, and nothing choleric nor rash; yet did he bear about him something of what the antients called the irascible, and which his wife, if she had been endowed with much wisdom, would have feared.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Percy is a rugged soldier, cholerick and quarrelsome, and has only the soldier's virtues, generosity and courage.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
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Phutatorius, who was somewhat of a cholerick spirit, was just going to snatch the cudgels out of Didius’s hands, in order to bemaul Yorick to some purpose — and that the desperate monosyllable Z ... ds was the exordium to an oration, which, as they judged from the sample, presaged but a rough kind of handling of him; so that my uncle Toby’s good-nature felt a pang for what
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Indeed, the political system accommodated the interests and choleric attitudes of both men with little difficulty.
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choleric" persons, who are angry too quickly and for any slight cause.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Imbalance of the humours resulted in various temperaments, thus the dominance of black bile causes melancholy; blood, sanguine temperament; phlegm, a phlegmatic temperament; or yellow bile, a choleric temperament.
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As a choleric sign it is prone to fevers and is linked to yellow-jaundice and sore eyes.
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Even Maureen, who generally treats her choleric partner with girlish forbearance, at one point asks: ‘Why do you always shout like that, Rolf?’