choleric

choleric

1. kiivasluonteinen, koleerinen

Synonyymisanakirja

choleric

vihainen, koleerinen, kiivasluonteinen, raivoisa, äkeä, äreä, ärhäkkä, häijy, kiivas, pikavihainen, äkkipikainen, kipakka, tuittupäinen, pippurinen, lyhytpinnainen, intohimoinen, kiihkeä, palava, tulinen.

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Englannin sanakirja

choleric (englanti > suomi)

1. koleerinen, raivoisa

choleric englanniksi

1. (according to theories of the four w:humorism humours or w:Four temperaments|temperaments) Having a temperament characterized by an excess of choler; easily becoming angry.

2. 14th c., (w), (w), General Prologue, line 589,^{https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/General_Prologue}

The REVE was a sclendre colerik man.

3. 1625, (w), “Of Travel,” in w:Essays (Francis Bacon)|Essays,^{http://www.gutenberg.org/files/575/575-h/575-h.htm}

And let a man beware, how he keepeth company with choleric and quarrelsome persons; for they will engage him into their own quarrels.

4. 1640, (w), Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 146,^{https://archive.org/details/remainsofthats00her}

From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing for ever.

5. 1841, (w), (w), Chapter 35,^{http://www.gutenberg.org/files/700/700-h/700-h.htm}

As it was clear that he was a choleric fellow in some respects, Mr Swiveller was relieved to find him in such good humour, and, to encourage him in it, smiled himself.

6. 1936, (w), w:Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind, Part I, Chapter 2,^{http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161h.html}

Beneath his choleric exterior Gerald O’Hara had the tenderest of hearts.

7. Showing or expressing anger.

8. c. 1590, (w), (w), Act I, Scene 2,^{http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=henry6p2&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl}

What, what, my lord! are you so choleric

With Eleanor, for telling but her dream?

9. 1667, (w), (w), Act V, Scene 1,^{https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006104554}

How angry the poor devil is! In fine, thou art as choleric as a cook by a fireside.

10. c. 1713, (w), The History of John Bull, Chapter 15,^{http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2643/2643-h/2643-h.htm}

For God’s sake, madam, why so choleric?

11. Of or relating to cholera (infectious disease).

12. 1833, (w), “Observations, pathological and therapeutic, on the epidemic cholera, as it has prevailed in Edinburgh and its vicinity,” Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 114, p. 21,^{https://archive.org/details/b21948306}

I now proceed to enumerate those lesions and morbid changes found in the bodies of those cut off by cholera, which must have preceded the appearance of the disease, and which, existing, as they did, in very different organs, had no connection with the choleric symptoms, but nevertheless rendered the chance of recovery much less likely.

13. puhekieltä Causing an excess of choler.

14. c. 1593, (w), (w), Act IV, Scene 3,^{http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=tamingshrew&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl}

I fear it is too choleric a meat.

How say you to a fat tripe finely broil’d?

15. A person with a choleric temperament.

16. c. 1915, w:John Adams (educationist)|John Adams, Making the Most of One’s Mind, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, p. 21,^{https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001279888}

The cholerics show ambition, stubbornness, love of work, courage (..)

17. 1984, (w), Your Temperament: Discover its Potential, republished as Why You Act the Way You Do, Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House, 2012,^{https://books.google.ca/books?id=Y8vT2G-gDZUC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false}

No one utters more caustic comments than a sarcastic choleric!

18. A person suffering from cholera (infectious disease).

19. 1832, (w), The Cholera Spasmodica, New York: P. Hill, p. 59,^{https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100139563}

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

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