humors in English
his tales are full of humor
her good humor vanished
she was always humoring him to prevent trouble
Use "humors" in a sentence
1. An infinitude enchantment experienced, humors Chinese language teacher.
2. Insidious it is, it Befouleth even the purest of humors
3. The three other humors were yellow bile, phlegm, and blood.
4. That's boring a hole in the skull to release bad humors.
5. Bile definition is - either of two humors associated in old physiology with irascibility and melancholy
6. Galen believed that the plague was due to a disproportion of the 4 humors.
7. Bloodletting has been employed since ancient times as a method to keep the body’s so-called four humors in balance
8. Crudity Meaning: "quality of producing unnatural humors," from Old French crudité (14c.) and directly from Latin… See definitions of Crudity.
9. 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.
10. When "Carminative" came into use in the 15th-century medical field, Carminative agents were thought to be effective because they influenced the humors
11. I had previously thought that Bloodletting was a uniquely Western cultural invention – part of Galenic medicine involving the balancing of the four humors, one of which being blood.
12. Choler (n.) late 14c., "bile," as one of the humors, an excess of which was supposed in old medicine to cause irascibility or temper, from Old French colere "bile, anger," from …
13. Bloodletting, a practice originally performed to remove the bad humors from the body, was initiated by the Egyptians around 1000 BC and lasted until the end of the 19th century
14. Atrabilious is a somewhat rare word with a history that parallels that of the more common "melancholy." Representing one of the four bodily humors, from which it was once believed that human emotions originated, Atrabilious …
15. Cupping is the term applied to a technique that uses small glass cups or bamboo jars as suction devices that are placed on the ski to disperse and break up stagnation and congestion by drawing congested blood, energy or other humors to the surface
16. ‘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
17. Complexion (n.) mid-14c., complexioun, "temperament, natural disposition of body or mind," from Old French Complexion, complession "combination of humors," hence "temperament, character, make-up," from Latin Complexionem (nominative complexio) "combination" (in Late Latin, "physical constitution"), from complexus "surrounding, encompassing," past participle of complecti "to encircle, embrace
18. The optick glasse of humors or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper: wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge, of what complection he is, and Answerably learne