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/ˈkälər/,
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(in medieval science and medicine) One of the four bodily humors, identified with bile, believed to be associated with a peevish or irascible temperament,
  1. (in medieval science and medicine) One of the four bodily humors, identified with bile, believed to be associated with a peevish or irascible temperament

  2. Anger or irascibility

  1. irritability: an irritable petulant feeling
  2. anger: a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
  3. yellow bile: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger
  4. (choleric) easily moved to anger; "men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing"- H.G.Wells
  5. (choleric) characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response"
  6. Anger is a feeling related to one's perception of having been offended/wronged and a tendency to undo that wrongdoing by retaliation. R. Novaco recognized three modalities of anger: cognitive (appraisals), somatic-affective (tension and agitations) and behavioral (withdrawal and antagonism). ...
  7. (Choleric) Four Temperaments is a theory of psychology that stems from the ancient medical concept of humorism.
  8. (Choleric (ballet)) The Four Temperaments is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to music he commissioned from Paul Hindemith (the latter's eponymous 1940 music for string orchestra and piano) for the opening program of Ballet Society, immediate ...
  9. Anger or irritability; One of the four humours of ancient physiology, also known as yellow bile
  10. (choleric) Easily becoming angry; Showing or expressing anger
  11. (Choleric) corresponds to the fluid of yellow bile, the season of summer (dry and hot), and the element of fire. A person who is choleric is a doer and a leader. Many great charismatic, military and political figures were cholerics. On the negative side, they are easily angered or bad tempered. ...
  12. (choleric) irritable, hot tempered.
  13. (Choleric) One of the four temperaments, associated with the element of fire. The choleric personality is believed to indicate an optimistic, youthful, impulsive temperament, prone to spontaneous outbursts of emotion. See also Melancholic, Phlegmatic and Sanguine.
  14. (Choleric) yellow bile - restless, egocentric, changeable, hostrionic, etc
  15. (choleric) During the Hellenic Period, Hippocrates described personality by relating it to bodily fluids. A choleric personality was one with a fiery temper, the result of too much yellow bile.
  16. (choleric) extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible: a choleric disposition. —Syn. 1. wrathful, testy, impatient, touchy. —Ant. phlegmatic, tranquil.
  17. (choleric) producing biliousness
  18. (choleric) short response time-delay, but response sustained for a relatively long time. (hot/dry)
  19. [Dan. 8:7; 11:11] Passionate anger, wrath
  20. Bile. One of the four 'humours' of medieval physiology, an excess of which was supposed to cause irascibility of temper. Those described as choleric had choler as their predominant humour.