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Word Meanings - CHOLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. His complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton. 2. Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. He is rash and very

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1. The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. His complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton. 2. Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. He is rash and very sudden in choler. Shak.

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  • INDIGNATION
    1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
  • MANIAC
    Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
  • AUGER
    nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
  • FEROCITY
    Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.
  • SPLEENY
    1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
  • WRATHLESS
    Free from anger or wrath. Waller.
  • WRATHILY
    In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully.
  • GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
    Coarse meal.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • WRATHY
    Very angry.
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • PIQUET
    See PICKET
  • COMPOSER
    1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
  • MANIABLE
    Manageable. Bacon.
  • PIQUE
    A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
  • SPLEENFUL
    Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy. Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny. Shak. Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine. Tennyson.
  • ENMITY
    1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. No ground of enmity between us known. Milton. 2. A state of opposition; hostility. The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James iv. 4. Syn. -- Rancor; hostility; hatred;
  • WRATH
    wræ'ebtho, fr. wra'eb wroth; akin to Icel. reithi wrath. See Wroth, 1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire. Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed. Spenser. When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. Esther ii.
  • IRRITATION
    The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial
  • PASSIONLESS
    Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
  • ON-HANGER
    A hanger-on.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • DERANGER
    One who deranges.
  • WANGER
    A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
  • MEGALOMANIA
    A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
  • SAUGER
    An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
  • DOUBLEGANGER
    An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
  • NYMPHOMANIA
    Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
  • COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
    See A
  • ICONOMANIA
    A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.
  • DECALCOMANIA; DECALCOMANIE
    The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
  • ELEUTHEROMANIAC
    Mad for freedom.
  • KLEPTOMANIA
    A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
  • GRANGER
    1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.

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