choleric
Speech parts
1. choleric - Noun
2. choleric - Adjective
3. choleric - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.
Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.
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Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Choleric men are blind and mad.
From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing for ever.
a choleric outburst