Meaning atrabilious
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atrabilious1650s, from Latin atra bilis, translating Greek melankholia "black bile" (see melancholy; also compare bile). Atra is fem. of ater "black, dark, gloomy," perhaps related to root of [..]
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atrabiliousmelancholy or bad-tempered
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atrabilious(adj) irritable as if suffering from indigestion
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atrabilious
(medicine,obsolete) Having an excess of black bile.
* '''1645''', , quoted in Antonia Fraser, ''The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century England'', London: , 1984, :
*: [I] could see [..]
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