choleric

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to choler.
2. sıfat Of a person: having an excess of choler, and thus having a tendency to become angry easily; also, of a person's complexion or temperament: dominated by choler.

   “Alway remember, that in wynter fleume increaſeth by reaſon of rayne and moyſtneſſe of that ſeaſon, alſo the length of nyghtes and moche reſte. And therfore in that tyme cholerike perſons, are beſt at eaſe, ſemblably are yonge men, but to olde men wynter is ennemye.”

3. sıfat Of a planet or zodiac sign, season, etc.: affecting people having an excess of choler, causing anger or irritability.
4. sıfat Of a body organ: affected by or containing choler, especially when abnormal or excessive.

   “[T]he cholerike ſtomake, doth not deſyre ſo much as he may digeſte, the melancholye ſtomake may not digeſte ſo moche as he deſyreth: for colde maketh appetyte, but naturall heate concocteth or boyleth.”

5. sıfat Of a disease or symptom: caused by choler, especially when abnormal or excessive.
6. sıfat Of food: causing an excess of choler in the body.

   “A chollericke parcell of food it is, that vvho ſo ties himſelfe to racke and manger to for fiue ſummers, and fiue vvinters, he ſhall beget a child that vvill be a ſouldiour and a commaunder before hee hath caſt his firſt teeth, […]”

7. sıfat Of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily; bad-tempered, irritable; also, feeling or showing anger; angry, enraged.

   “[…] Moſes might ſeem to bee the ſharpeſt, the rougheſt, and the cholorickeſt man yͭ euer vvas: and that vvas againſt his nature.”

8. sıfat Of an act, feeling, words, etc.: arising from or showing anger.

   “Though that he were poſting in fatal iourney to deaths doore, / Yeet this quick cholerick challenge hee could not abandon.”

9. sıfat hot; also, hot and dry.

   “[T]he common opinion is (though long ſince exploded by Columella) that all hot, and choleric grounds, are red or brovvn; cold and dry, blackiſh; cold and moiſt, vvhitiſh; hot and moiſt, ruddy; […]”

10. sıfat Senses relating to cholera (“any of several acute infectious diseases caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium”).
11. sıfat Synonym of choleraic (“of or relating to cholera; also, affected by cholera”).
12. isim A person having an excess of choler, and thus having a tendency to become angry easily; preceded by the: such people collectively.
13. isim A person having a tendency to become angry easily; preceded by the: such people collectively.

    “[A]s Plutarch ſaith, Men are not vvoont to dravv a freſh cheeſe vvith a hooke: but as for the cholericke, they dravv not, but brooze, breake and ſhatter in peeces; and in ſtead of dravving, do thruſt off children from comming to learning.”

14. isim Senses relating to cholera.
15. isim Synonym of choleraic (“a person suffering from cholera”).

    “Persons laboring under pulmonary affections appear to be less liable than others, though I have found softened tubercles in some cholerics.”