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black bile
noun
- one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing gloominess.
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Origin of black bile1
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Example Sentences
According to this celebrated theory there are four humors in the body—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
Abscess of the liver depends upon some vice of the blood, the bile, the phlegm or the black-bile.
But these various pursuits did not banish all her cares, or carry off all her constitutional black bile.
These four "humours" were blood, phlegm, yellow bile (or choler), and black bile (or melancholy).
Three days later Black, of Georgia, "poured forth his black bile" for an hour and a half.
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