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. Obs…
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| 释义 | the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > black bile as cause of melancholy (7) black choleraa1398 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. Obs… choler adusta1400 an abnormal form of choler having a black or dark colour; (also) the humour melancholy (melancholy, n.1 2a) (in a normal or abnormal form); cf. bl… black choler?a1425 In ancient and medieval physiology and medicine: the humour choler (choler, n. 2a) in a form having a dark or black colour; (also) the humour… melancholic1590 Black bile. Obsolete. atrabile1594 literal. Black bile, ‘a term anciently used for an imaginary fluid, thick, black, and acrid,’ supposed to be secreted by the renal or atrabiliary… combust choler1607 Adust. combust choler n. ‘choler adust’. black bile1634 = atrabilis (in 1728 at atrabile, n.), choler adust n. at choler, n. 2c, or melancholy, the fourth of the ‘humours’ of early physiology; see atrabile… |
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