Caused by or containing choler (choler, n. 2a), esp. in excessive quantity or abnormal form. Obsolete.

Of blood: containing black bile.

Belonging to the gall, bilious.

= melancholic, adj.

Tending to cause or promote melancholy. Obsolete.

= choleric, adj. (in various senses).

= choleric, adj. (in various senses).

= atrabilarious, adj.

Medieval Medicine Of a disease, etc.: resulting from or characteristic of black bile. Obsolete.

= atrabilious, adj.

Containing black bile.

Affected by black bile or ‘choler adust’; melancholy, hypochondriac; splenetic, acrimonious.

Of diseases and temperament: Affected by, or arising from, too great a secretion of bile, or from bilious derangement.

= atrabilarious, adj.

= atrabilarious, adj.; ‘replete with black choler’ (Johnson).

Of or relating to black bile.

Of or relating to black bile; ‘applied to the renal or supra-renal glands or capsules, and to the arteries and veins by which they are supplied.’…

= bilious, adj. 2.

Characterized by or affected with acholia; (of faeces) containing no bile.