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ill humour, ˈill-ˈhumour
[Properly two words: ill a. + humour n.]
†1. A disordered or morbid bodily ‘humour’ (see humour n. 2). Obs.
a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 115 Surelie mens bodies be not more full of ill humors, than commonlie mens myndes..be full of fansies. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xix. (1848) 281 It would..breed ill Humours and Diseases.
†2. An evil or malignant inclination (humour n. 6 b). Obs.
1636E. Dacres tr. Machiavel's Disc. Livy ii. xiii. 325 The Romanes having had some sent of this ill humour, that had possessed the Latins.
3. A disagreeable, irascible, or sullen mood or frame of mind (humour n. 5); crossness, moroseness, sullenness, bad temper. (In this sense often hyphened.)
1748G. White Serm. (MS.), To bear with the ill Humours and Vices of those from whom they have worldly Expectations. 1776Bentham Fragm. Govt. Wks. 1838 I. 230 It is with men that they are in ill-humour, not with laws. a1872Maurice Friendship Bks. i. (1874) 21 Dean Swift..the best and most perfect specimen of ill-humour. |