18 January 2017

choler

[kol-er]

noun

1. irascibility; anger; wrath; irritability.
2. Old Physiology. yellow bile.
3. Obsolete. biliousness.

Origin of choler

Middle English, Latin, Greek
1350-1400; Middle English colera; Medieval Latin, Latin cholera; Greek choléra cholera

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Examples from the Web for choler

Historical Examples

The king felt the blow; Dumouriez saw through the perfidy, and could not repress his choler against Servan in the council-chamber.
History of the Girondists, Volume I
Alphonse de Lamartine

“What an unfounded assertion,” exclaimed that gentleman in choler.
The Shadow of Ashlydyat
Mrs. Henry Wood

choler cooled into surprise, and surprise exploded into a vapid, grinning “Huh!”
The Court of Boyville
William Allen White

They aunswer againe in choler : “Let him come feele my pulse.”
A Renaissance Courtesy-book
Giovanni Della Casa

The thought that another should challenge his right or traverse his desire galled him to a choler little short of madness.
The God of Love
Justin Huntly McCarthy

It was evident that his choler against Mackwith had risen again.
A Case in Camera
Oliver Onions

But this opinion I kept carefully to myself, as my uncle’s choler was not pleasant to bear.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne

Let melancholy rule supreme, choler preside, or blood, or phlegm.
The Battle of the Books
Jonathan Swift

The Baron’s choler having subsided, he was the first to break the ice of silence.
Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities
Robert Smith Surtees

I damned the thickness of his hide, but swallowed my choler.
In Accordance with the Evidence
Oliver Onions

Today’s quote

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― Bertolt Brecht

Today’s quote

18 January 1977 – The Granville Rail Disaster, in which a crowded commuter train derailed and collided with an overpass that collapsed onto it, killing 83 people and injuring more than 210.

18 January 1779 – birth of Peter Roget, British lexographer and creator of Roget’s Thesaurus. Died 12 September 1869.

18 January 1904 – birth of Cary Grant, born Archibald Alexander Leach, actor (‘North by Northwest‘, ‘To Catch a Thief‘, ‘An Affair to Remember‘, ‘Gunga Din‘). Died 29 November 1986.