cholerous

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English

Noun

cholerous (plural cholerouses)

  1. (obsolete) Of or related to choler, yellow bile; choleric
    • 1658, Thomas Meriton, Love and War: A Tragedy, page 4:
      Which will accompanied be with flegmatick and cholerous humours.
  2. (obsolete) Angry or irritable; choleric
    • 1830, Eyre Evans Crowe, The History of France, page 4:
      A cholerous soldier, jealous of his rights, struck the vase with his axe, exclaiming that the king had no right to more than fell to his allotment.
  3. (obsolete) Afflicted or contaminated with cholera.
    • 1833, The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine, page 246:
      Persons who became ill, soon after being exposed to the influences of an atmosphere supposed to be impregnated with cholerous exhalations.