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(käl′ər)

noun

Obsolete bile: in medieval times yellow bile was considered to be one of the four humors of the body and the source of anger and irritability
Now Rare anger or ill humor

Origin: altered (by analogy with L forms) < ME & OFr colre < L cholera: see cholera

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noun

Anger; irritability.
a. One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, thought to cause anger and bad temper when present in excess; yellow bile.
b. Obsolete The quality and condition of being bilious.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English colre

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Latin cholera, cholera, jaundice

Origin: , from Greek kholera

Origin: , from kholē, bile; see ghel-² in Indo-European roots

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