In ancient and medieval physiology and medicine: the humour choler (choler, n. 2a) in a form having a dark or black colour; = black choler, n. Obs…

Medicine. The humour black bile (see bile, n. 3); an unnatural, disease-causing humour derived from or resembling this; now historical and rare…

Excessive or abnormal choler regarded as a cause of disease; the disease produced by such choler; (as a count noun) a type of abnormal choler…

Medicine. Originally: a pathological condition thought to result from an excess of black bile in the body, characterized in early references by…

an abnormal form of choler having a black or dark colour; (also) the humour melancholy (melancholy, n.1 2a) (in a normal or abnormal form); cf. bl…

In ancient and medieval physiology and medicine: the humour choler (choler, n. 2a) in a form having a dark or black colour; (also) the humour…

Melancholy character or disposition.

Medicine. Adust. burnt choler n. 'choler adust’.

literal. Black bile, ‘a term anciently used for an imaginary fluid, thick, black, and acrid,’ supposed to be secreted by the renal or atrabiliary…

Adust. combust choler n. ‘choler adust’.

= atrabilis (in 1728 at atrabile, n.), choler adust n. at choler, n. 2c, or melancholy, the fourth of the ‘humours’ of early physiology; see atrabile…

Increased production or flow of bile.

Excess or derangement of the bile.

Absent or reduced secretion of bile. In early use also: any of several diseases (supposedly) characterized by this, esp. cholera (cholera, n. 4) and…

Bilious quality or condition; figurative peevishness, ill-temper.