black bile in English
Our bodies were thought to be composed of blood, phlegm, black bile , and yellow bile just as the world at large consisted of earth, air, fire, and water.
Use "black bile" in a sentence
1. The black bile sourly bitter rose in Bonasera's throat overflowed through tightly clenched teeth.
2. Atrabilious (comparative more Atrabilious, superlative most Atrabilious) (medicine, obsolete) Having an excess of black bile
3. Origin of Atrabilious Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘affected by black bile’, one of the four supposed cardinal humours of the body, believed to cause melancholy): from Latin atra bilis ‘black bile’, translation of Greek melankholia ‘melancholy’, + -ious.
4. Atrabilious (adj.) "affected by melancholy," 1650s, from Latin atra bilis, translating Greek melankholia "black bile" (see melancholy; also compare bile)
5. The Atrabilious temperament or melancholia is, according to Aristotle, a natural disposition in which there is a preponderance of black bile over the other humours.
6. Bilious is one of several words whose origins trace to the old belief that four bodily humors (black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood) control temperament.
7. Fire: summer-Choleric-yellow bile; Air: spring-sanguine-blood; Water: fall -phlegmatic-phlegm; Earth: winter-melancholic-black bile; The treatment of a person with a discernible temperament could now be made
8. Origin of Atrabilious From Latin ātra bīlis black bile (translation of Greek melankhōliā) ātra black āter- in Indo-European roots bīlis bile From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th …
9. I suggest "Atrabilious", from the Latin for black bile, thought by the ancients to be one of the body's four "humours".Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
10. Thus, it is common to find the background of modern depression linked to concepts such as the Greeks Aegritude (θλίψη, aegritudo) and black bile (μέλαινα χολή, melaina chole), the Latin acedia and taedium vitae, the Renaissance tristitia and melancholia, as well …
11. Other articles where Choler is discussed: humour: …cardinal humours were blood, phlegm, Choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile); the variant mixtures of these humours in different persons determined their “complexions,” or “temperaments,” their physical and mental qualities, and their dispositions
12. ‘While ministers talked of ‘demonic possession,’ doctors attributed mental illnesses to an imbalance of the four bodily ‘humors’: blood, phlegm, Choler, and black bile.’ ‘The humoral theory, on the other hand, viewed disease as an imbalance among the body's four basic principles: blood (the sanguine, or wet-hot, humor), phlegm
13. Thus, it is common to find the background of modern depression linked to concepts such as the Greeks Aegritude (θλίψη, aegritudo) and black bile (μέλαινα χολή, melaina chole), the Latin acedia and taedium vitae, the Renaissance tristitia and melancholia, as well as the modern ennui, spleen, mal de vivre, nausée, noia
14. Thus, it is common to find the background of modern depression linked to concepts such as the Greeks Aegritude (θλίψη, aegritudo) and black bile (μέλαινα χολή, melaina chole), the Latin acedia and taedium vitae, the Renaissance tristitia and melancholia, as well as the modern ennui, spleen, mal de vivre, nausée, noia
15. Thus, it is common to find the background of modern depression linked to concepts such as the Greeks Aegritude (θλίψη, aegritudo) and black bile (μέλαινα χολή, melaina chole), the Latin acedia and taedium vitae, the Renaissance tristitia and melancholia, as well as the modern ennui, spleen, mal de vivre, nausée, noia
16. 3 Accidie; 4 Black Bile and Melancholia; 5 Melancholia in Men and Women; 6 Learned People and Melancholy; 7 Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons; 8 Melancholy Nuns; 9 Melancholy; 10 Melancholic States; 11 The Melancholy Character; 12 How to Help Melancholicks; 13 The Spleen; 14 The Chronic Disease of Melancholy; 15 Werther’s Death