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Meanings of black bile in English

A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy.

Synonyms
Examples for "melancholy"
Examples for "melancholy"
1
London producer James Mathé's way with melancholy continues to serve him well.
The Irish Times
2
My eyes are the colour of burned wine; in them lives melancholy.
The Little Dream: An Allegory in Six Scenes
3
Maloof took one last melancholy look at his new ceiling, and left.
The Golem and the Jinni
4
I am; and it is the most melancholy journey I ever attempted.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
5
The greatness of the affair terrified him; yet its melancholy drew him.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
Usage of black bile in English
1
At that moment it seemed like a living thing, oozing black bile.
Book of lost threads
2
But black bile-thatglistening centerpiece of Galen's physiology-wasnowhere to be found.
The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
3
Ajib felt fear and rage churn in his stomach like black bile.
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
4
She has suffered all this till her waters have become waves of black bile.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
5
Hippocrates thought melancholia was caused by too much black bile.
Radio NZ
6
Clement, in whom black bile generously flows, works at home.
The new yorker
7
The black bile, sourly bitter, rose in Bonasera's throat, overflowed through tightly clenched teeth.
The Godfather
8
Now the hymn of Puritanical gloom-the peacemaker with Providence performing devotional exercises in black bile.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
9
Bidwell's facade cracked and some of his anger and frustration spilled out like black bile.
Speaks the Nightbird
10
She's vomited blood and black bile all over herself.
Dark Matter
11
All yesterday I was vomiting black bile.
The Hyperion Cantos
12
According to this celebrated theory there are four humors in the body-blood ,phlegm ,yellowbile, and black bile.
A History of Science — Volume 1
13
Ancient Romans blamed an excess of " black bile."
Wired
14
The midwife clamps her mouth over his nose and mouth, sucks and spits black bile on the floor.
The King’s Curse
15
There was no black bile.
The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
16
Calvin was bleeding profusely, breathing sporadically, and coughing up lumps of black bile onto the cement beneath his head.
Gods go begging
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Black bile across language varieties
United States of America
Common