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单词 ill humour
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ill humourill humorn.

Etymology: < ill adj. + humour n.
1. A disordered or morbid bodily ‘humour’ (see humour n. 1). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > disordered state > of humours
dyscrasiac1400
dyscrasyc1400
mistemperurec1475
cacochymy?1541
colliquying?1541
ill humoura1568
interception1598
crasis1602
incommoderation1617
peccancy1648
colliquation1662
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 45 Surelie mens bodies, be not more full of ill humors, than commonlie mens myndes..be full of fansies.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xix. sig. Hh6v It would..breed ill Humours and Diseases.
2. An evil or malignant inclination (humour n. 6b). Obsolete.
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1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavelli Disc. 1st Decade T. Livius ii. xiii. 325 The Romanes having had some sent of this ill humour, that had possessed the Latins.
3. A disagreeable, irascible, or sullen mood or frame of mind (humour n. 5); crossness, moroseness, sullenness, bad temper. (In this sense often hyphenated.)
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun]
melancholya1393
morosity1534
distemperature1571
distemperance1574
diverseness1574
sullennessa1586
spleen1596
distemper1604
mustinessa1625
canker?1635
distemperedness1649
moroseness1653
tetricalness1653
moodiness1694
dishumour1712
ill humour1748
sulkiness1760
stuff1787
funk1808
sumphishness1830
spleenishness1847
moodishness1857
grouchiness1925
1748 G. White Serm. (MS.) To bear with the ill Humours and Vices of those from whom they have worldly Expectations.
1776 J. Bentham Fragm. on Govt. Pref. p. xv It is with men that they are in ill-humour, not with laws.
a1872 F. D. Maurice Friendship Bks. (1874) i. 21 Dean Swift..the best and most perfect specimen of ill-humour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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