black cholic

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Noun

black cholic (uncountable)

  1. (historical, medicine) Synonym of black bile.
    Synonym: melancholy
    • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 128:
      Red cholic makes them thin, though eating much, swift, bold, wrathful, agile. Black cholic makes them serious of settled disposition, even sad.
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