a. Obs. [f. CHOLER + -OUS.] Pertaining to choler or bile, bilious, wrathful.

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1610.  Barrough, Meth. Physick, IV. vii. (1639), 232. To mitigate the cholerous heate.

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1822.  Blackw. Mag., XI. 441. They … grow cholerous.

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