choleric

How To Use choleric In A Sentence

• The innkeeper, who was a choleric gnome of poor disposition, looked out of the door. STARDUST
• 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?
• The sanguine humour is the principal humour of the blood which embodies the other three humours: the choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic within it.
• Her mother, for instance, with her high blood pressure, her quick temper, is obviously choleric.
• 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
• In Greek and Roman medicine Excessive bile was supposed to produce an aggressive temperament, known as 'choleric'. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
• 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
• How did a choleric chef regain his reputation after attacking a kitchen staff?
• 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.
• A surly cholerick Fellow generally makes Choice of a Bear; as Men of milder Spectator, April 2, 1711