humours in English
his tales are full of humor
her good humor vanished
she was always humoring him to prevent trouble
Use "humours" in a sentence
1. Antacrid (not comparable) (archaic, medicine) Serving to correct acrimony of the humours
2. 3 We see his urgency edge lower, the plectrum peck ... Tropical humours!
3. What does Antacrid mean? (archaic, medicine) Serving to correct acrimony of the humours
4. We stopped believing in the four humours, but we remain bilious, choleric, sanguine and phlegmatic.
5. 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
6. 19 We stopped believing in the four humours, but we remain bilious, choleric, sanguine and phlegmatic.
7. These symptoms vary according to the mixture of those four humours Adust, which is unnatural melancholy.
8. This Contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble
9. This Contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble
10. The opera is first and foremost an evocation of genius loci, and subsequently a gallery of types and humours.
11. Laurentius condemns his tenet, because Adustion of humours makes men mad, as lime burns when water is cast on it.
12. 18 The opera is first and foremost an evocation of genius loci, and subsequently a gallery of types and humours.
13. From Middle French Adustion (French (now rare) Adustion) state of the humours of being adust, action or process of burning and its etymon classical Latin adustiōn-, adustiō action or process of burning, state of being burnt, (in medical use) burn, heatstroke, sunstroke, in post-classical Latin also cauterization, (of humours) process of
14. 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.
15. In the ancient physiological theory still current in the European Middle Ages and later, the four cardinal humours were blood, phlegm, Choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black
16. Choler in medieval science and medicine, one of the four bodily humours, identified with bile, believed to be associated with a peevish or irascible, or Choleric, temperament.Also known as yellow bile
17. 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
18. “Praise be to thee, O Ra, exalted Sekhem ; thou Assemblest “bodies in the Ṭuaṭ, and they gain the form of life, thou destroyest foul humours, and thou art indeed the bodies of the god Serqi ()
19. The French were slow to adopt the term humour; in French, humeur and humour are still two different words, the former referring to a person's mood or to the archaic concept of the four humours.
20. “Praise be to thee, O Ra, exalted Sekhem ; thou Assemblest “bodies in the Ṭuaṭ, and they gain the form of life, thou destroyest foul humours, and thou art indeed the bodies of the god Serqi ()
21. 1863, Dinah Maria Craik, Mistress and maid Elizabeth […] wished he were beside her, and was so glad to think he would soon be beside her always, with all his humours and weaknesses, all his little crossnesses and Complainings […] Translations
22. 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.
23. That of body is nothing but a kind of Benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, causeth crudities, obstructions, excremental humours, quencheth the natural heat, dulls the spirits, and makes them unapt to do any thing whatsoever.
24. Quite Congruously with the placid, erudite, quality of his culture, although, like other poets, he sings much of youth, he is often most successful in the forecast, the expression, of the humours, the considerations, that in truth are more proper to old age:--
25. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Passion of our Blessed Saviour (sermon) What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-Admirings, than is that tragical cross […
26. ‘In the eighteenth century madness was seen as either Animalism, best controlled by harsh restraint, or as imbalances in bodily humours, treated by bleeding.’ ‘McCann refuses to sanitize or romanticize sexuality's raw Animalism.’ ‘‘This insanity of his can be excused,’ she said with a glint of Animalism …
27. I managed to Bullyrag giddoen into splitting the "Five Courses of Seafood," each of which takes over one of the five basic flavors hot, bitter, salty, sweet, sour for a harmonious and tasty balance of humours, or chi, or whatever version of malarkey they have in Vietnam.