单词 | black cholera |
释义 | black choleran.ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > black bile as cause of melancholy black choleraa1398 choler adusta1400 black choler?a1425 melancholic1590 atrabile1594 combust choler1607 black bile1634 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > [noun] > bilious disorders black choleraa1398 black humoura1398 cholera1398 melancholya1398 choler adusta1400 black choler?a1425 melancholiousness1526 burnt choler1578 atrabile1594 combust choler1607 black bile1634 polycholia1799 bile1803 acholia1835 biliousness1856 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iv. xi. 161 Þis blak colera is enemye of kynde. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 16 If the perbreakinge commeth of the black Colera. 1605 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick iii. xiii. 408 The yellow and greene Cholera are easily altered into black Cholera. 1926 W. C. Curry Chaucer & Mediaeval Sci. i. 11 For example, if Luna is in Cancer when the sickness begins and in conjunction with Saturn and Mars, the infirmity comes from a superabundance of black cholera. 2. The disease cholera (cholera n. 4), esp. when severe and progressing rapidly to collapse and death. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1832 G. S. Bedford tr. F. G. Boisseau Treat. Cholera Morbus 33 M. de Hubenthal adds that the inhabitants of Arkatak give the name of Black Cholera [Fr. choléra noir] to that in which the whole body becomes suddenly glacial. 1890 R. Kipling in Macmillan's Mag. June 159/1 The black cholera does its work quietly and without explanation. 1911 F. Martyn Life in Legion vii. 79 The man in the next bed..heard my remarks upon the excessive mortality from black cholera. 1966 B. Malamud Fixer i. 8 That makes her untrue, a black cholera on her! 2002 P. Ardern When Matron Ruled v. 79 Emily MacManus described them as going under and dying with a swiftness as though they had black cholera. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1398 |
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