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発音

• enPR: kǒ'lər

• 韻: -əʊlə(ɹ)

名詞

choler (usually uncountable, plural cholers)

1. Anger or irritability.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:

     Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
     Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
     I ſtand agaſt: but moſt aſtonied
     To ſee his choller ſhut in ſecrete thoughtes,
     And wrapt in ſilence of his angry ſoule.

   • 1808, Richard Graves, The Spiritual Quixote, page 127:

     This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]

   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

     Hutchins reflected a moment. All the choler and restlessness had melted out of the man's face. He was again the excellent artisan, slow but capable and self-reliant.

2. (historical, medicine) Synonym of yellow bile.

同意語

関連する語

• cholera
• choleric

アナグラム

• orchel