choleric

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(''according to theories of the four humours or temperaments|temperaments'') Having a temperament characterized by an excess of choler; easily becoming angry.
(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
1640, (w), ''Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc.'', in ''The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert'', London: Pickering, 1841, p. 146,https://archive.org/details/remainsofthats00her

From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing for ever.

(RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop)
(RQ:Mitchell Gone with the Wind)
Showing or expressing anger.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
{{quote-text|en|year=1667|author=John Dryden|title=Sir Martin Mar-all|section=act V, scene 1|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006104554
(RQ:Arbuthnot Law)
Of or relating to cholera (gl).
{{quote-journal|en|year=1833|author=David Craigie|title=Observations, pathological and therapeutic, on the epidemic cholera, as it has prevailed in Edinburgh and its vicinity|journal=Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal|issue=114|titleurl=https://archive.org/details/b21948306|page=21
Causing an excess of choler.
(RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew)
A person with a choleric temperament.
{{quote-book|en|year=c. 1915|author=Adams (educationist)|John Adams|title=Making the Most of One’s Mind|location=New York|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|page=21|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001279888
1984, (w), ''Your Temperament: Discover its Potential'', republished as ''Why You Act the Way You Do'', Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House, 2012,https://books.google.ca/books?id=Y8vT2G-gDZUC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

No one utters more caustic comments than a sarcastic choleric!

A person suffering from cholera (infectious disease).
{{quote-book|en|year=1832|author=Ashbel Smith|title=The Cholera Spasmodica|location=New York|publisher=P. Hill|page=59|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100139563