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单词 choleric passion
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choleric passion
choleric passion n. [after post-classical Latin cholerica passio (5th cent.); compare Middle French colerique passion (a1365)] (a) an emotion or trait believed to be determined by the humour choler (now historical); anger, bad temper; a fit of this; (b) Medicine disease attributed to an excess of choler, spec. = cholera morbus n. at cholera n. Compounds 2 (now historical); †an instance of this (obsolete).
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xiii. 481 And he [sc. Mars] disposiþ þe soule..to wraþþe, and to boldnesse, and to oþir colerik passiouns [L. colericas passiones].
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iv. vi. f. 81v Inflammation of the lunges, lethargies, fransy, hote syckenesses, cholerik passions, costiuenes or vehement laskes.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 126 They..helpe the cholericke passion, which is a vehement purging of choler vpwards and downewards.
1831 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 18 368/1 We read that Cicero was once so offended and irritated at the cutting sarcasm and piquant satire with which his slaves in this manner lashed his faults, that he was hurried into an ungovernable rage of choleric passion.
1876 Trans. Epidemiol. Soc. 1866–76 3 53 The disease called cholera morbus, or the choleric passion, has been fully described by most of the Greek and Arab authors.
1913 Polit. Sci. Q. 28 552 In his private letters that eminent Whig nearly always fell into a choleric passion whenever he had occasion to speak of the ‘black-hearted’ advocates of French doctrines.
1951 L. Babb Elizabethan Malady i. 12 Accompanied by dryness, heat arouses combative passions—boldness and anger. These are ‘hot and dry,’ or ‘choleric,’ passions.
2009 C. Hamlin Cholera i. 24 Classical writers had seen the spasms as the ‘choleric passion’, noted James.
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