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Definition of black bile in English: black bilenoun mass noun(in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humours, believed to be associated with a melancholy temperament. （中世纪医学中认为与抑郁相关的）黑胆汁。亦称MELANCHOLY Also called melancholy Example sentencesExamples - He subscribes, at least in part, to the ancient belief that diseases are caused by an imbalance in the body's four humors: yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm.
- Aristotle asked, ‘Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry, or the arts are melancholic, and some to such an extent that they are infected by the diseases arising from black bile?’
- Our bodies were thought to be composed of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile just as the world at large consisted of earth, air, fire, and water.
- So if you've got an excess of black bile, you're melancholy; if there's a lot of blood running through you, you're sanguine.
- OK, I could have put melancholy as a header (as it means the same thing) but black bile felt more dramatic, and followed on nicely from yesterday.
OriginLate 18th century: translation of Greek melankholia (see melancholy). Compare with atrabilious. Definition of black bile in US English: black bilenoun (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humors, believed to be associated with a melancholy temperament. （中世纪医学中认为与抑郁相关的）黑胆汁。亦称MELANCHOLY Also called melancholy Example sentencesExamples - Aristotle asked, ‘Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry, or the arts are melancholic, and some to such an extent that they are infected by the diseases arising from black bile?’
- Our bodies were thought to be composed of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile just as the world at large consisted of earth, air, fire, and water.
- OK, I could have put melancholy as a header (as it means the same thing) but black bile felt more dramatic, and followed on nicely from yesterday.
- He subscribes, at least in part, to the ancient belief that diseases are caused by an imbalance in the body's four humors: yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm.
- So if you've got an excess of black bile, you're melancholy; if there's a lot of blood running through you, you're sanguine.
OriginLate 18th century: translation of Greek melankholia (see melancholy). Compare with atrabilious. |