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"(according to theories of the four humours or temperaments) Having a temperament characterized by an excess of choler; easily becoming angry."
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"ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:",
"text": "What, what, my lord! are you so choleric\nWith Eleanor, for telling but her dream?",
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"ref": "1667, John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, act V, scene 1:",
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"text": "For God’s ſake, Madam, vvhy ſo Cholerick? I ſay, this Letter is ſome Forgery; […]",
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"ref": "2024, Jeremy B. Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, p. 2",
"text": "[As] in most revolutionary movements, counterrevolutionary action was dealt with harshly – witness Lucas's (1994) choleric reaction to Ball and Mankiw (1994)."
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"ref": "1833, David Craigie, “Observations, pathological and therapeutic, on the epidemic cholera, as it has prevailed in Edinburgh and its vicinity”, in Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, number 114, page 21:",
"text": "I now proceed to enumerate those lesions and morbid changes found in the bodies of those cut off by cholera, which must have preceded the appearance of the disease, and which, existing, as they did, in very different organs, had no connection with the choleric symptoms, but nevertheless rendered the chance of recovery much less likely.",
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"(obsolete) Causing an excess of choler."
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