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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHOLER, n.
1. The bile. By the superabundance of this fluid, anger was formerly supposed to be produced; or perhaps the opinion was that the bile caused the inflamed appearance of the face in anger. Hence,
2. Anger; wrath; irritation of the passions.
Cholera Morbus, a sudden evacuation of bile, both upwards and downwards.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler]
2: a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance [syn: anger, choler, ire]
3: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger [syn: yellow bile, choler]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English coler, from Anglo-French colre, colere, from Latin cholera cholera, from Greek Date: 14th century 1. a. archaic yellow bile b. obsolete bile 1a 2. obsolete the quality or state of being bilious 3. ready disposition to irritation ; irascibility; also anger

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 hist. one of the four humours, bile. 2 poet. or archaic anger, irascibility. Etymology: ME f. OF colere bile, anger f. L cholera f. Gk kholera diarrhoea, in LL = bile, anger, f. Gk khole bile

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Choler Chol"er, n. [OE. coler, F. col[`e]re anger, L. cholera a bilious complaint, fr. Gr. ? cholera, fr. ?, ?, bile. See Gall, and cf. Cholera.] 1. The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.] His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. --I. Warton. 2. Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. He is rash and very sudden in choler. --Shak.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kol'-er: Lit. "bile," is used in the sense of a disease (cholera) (Sirach 31:20; 37:30), and in the sense of bitter anger (marar) (Da 8:7; 11:11 English Versions of the Bible, the American Standard Revised Version "anger").

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Bile. 2. Anger, wrath, ire, fury, rage, spleen, exasperation. See anger.

Moby Thesaurus

acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness, acrimony, anger, animosity, asperity, bad humor, bad temper, bile, biliousness, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, corrosiveness, discontent, gall, gnashing of teeth, hard feelings, heartburning, ill humor, ill nature, ill temper, rancor, rankling, slow burn, soreness, sourness, spleen, virulence