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单词 black cholera
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black choleran.

Brit. /ˌblak ˈkɒl(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˌblæk ˈkɑlərə/
Forms: see black adj. and n. and cholera n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., cholera n.
Etymology: < black adj. + cholera n. In sense 1 after post-classical Latin cholera nigra (from c1000 in British sources); compare black choler n. In sense 2 after French choléra noir (1831 or earlier).
1. In ancient and medieval physiology and medicine: the humour choler (choler n. 2a) in a form having a dark or black colour; = black choler n. Obsolete (in later use historical).
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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.
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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).
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