Monday, April 17, 2006

Word of the Day for Monday April 17, 2006 choler

choler \KOLL-ur; KOLE-ur\, noun:Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.
  • And at last he seems to have found his proper subject: one that genuinely engages his intellect, truly arouses his characteristic choler and fills him with zest.-- "Black Humor': Could Be Funnier", New York Times, January 12, 1998
  • I found my choler rising.-- Samuel Richardson, A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments... in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison

Choler is from Latin cholera, a bilious disease, from Greek kholera, from khole, bile.

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