10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATRABILIOUS»
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atrabilious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
atrabilious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva
on the following [considerations]: whether the whole body carries atrabilious
humor or whether this humor has accumulated only in the brain. I judge that you
first have to observe the quality of the somatic type of the patient, remembering
that ...
2
Avicenna on the Four Humours: ...
After describing the nature of the humours and their types, Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 4, goes into detail about each of the four humours and how they are produced.
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Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological ...
Black bile, the atrabilious humor, is the cold, heavy (moist) by-product, compared
to the sediment or dregs, the earthy residue of fermentation. The degree of heat
and extent of cooking are the primary determinants of the product of the ...
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The critical review, or annals of literature
Seme Observations on the Origin, Progress, and Method of treating the
Atrabilious Temperament and Gout. By William Grant, M. D. %ve. is. 6d. Cadell. T
"\R. Grant having already published his Observations on "V several acute
diseases that ...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
come muddy when cold, before coction begins i after the sirst rigour is over, the
eyes sparkle, the face is flushed, and most commonly the skin also; but when an
atrabilious diathesis is superadded, the tongue is yellowish and loaded ; the ...
Tobias George Smollett, 1771
—Richard Le Gallienne, as quoted in The Publishers Weekly, 1894 Yet at the
same time he detected much of this same cheerfulness throughout the ship and
something not very far from apparent unconcern, even in so atrabilious a soul as
...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
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Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
Itis°forthis reason that wine excites sexual desire, and Dionysus and
Aphroditeare rightly coupled together, and atrabilious persons aregenerally
lustful. For sexual desire is due tothe presence of breath,as is shown bythe fact
that thevirile ...
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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
atrabilious [at-ruh-bil-yuhs] an adjective meaning 'melancholy or bad-tempered.'
Used mainly in literary writing, it comes from the Latin term atra bilis, meaning '
black bile.' In medieval times, black bile was one of the four cardinal humors,
body ...
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This Freedom: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
and that always thereafter she applied to the elderly tomcat encountered or
passed in the street – "atrabilious." Atrabilious! The very word! She looked it up in
the dictionary, was disappointed to find it did not mean exactly what she thought it
...
A. S. M. Hutchinson, 2009
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Some Observations on the Origin and Progress of the Atrabilious Con .itutir.n and
Gout. Chap. 4. containing the regular cardinal Fit. By William Grant, M. D. 8vo. 1 s
. 6d. Cadell, 1781. This ingenious physician, whose former tract on this subject ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths, 1781
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATRABILIOUS»
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atrabilious is used in the context of the following news items.
Phoenix Suns 2014-15 Report Cards: Eric Bledsoe was …
... primary ball handling responsibilities (probably part of why that Dragon guy was so atrabilious), but now it was clearly the Bledsoe show. «Bright Side of the Sun, Apr 15»
The One Dastardly Sound That Eliminates the Most Kids in the …
The first is a substitution, such as spelling atrabilious as atribilious, mistakenly subbing an I for the second A. The second is a deletion: spelling ... «Slate Magazine, May 14»
The Malcontent, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse: 'full of precision and …
... Duke of Genoa, a place whose frenzied ferment of intrigue and infidelity is observed with an atrabilious eye by the court cynic, Malevole. «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 14»
Obama's Iran Problem
Until recently, he could count on the atrabilious comments of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stoke apprehensions about Iran's ... «The National Interest Online, Sep 13»
John Pemble
... about him: a portrait of the silently suffering and profoundly unfulfilled wife as well as the brilliant, atrabilious and harshly egocentric husband. «London Review of Books, May 13»
Making art to survive
Over a year, they culminated into a 20 metre long artwork, Atrabilious. The 27 panels of rubbings of dying trees are in the Dax Centre's Inspired ... «ABC Local, Jan 13»
Tuesday Rockpile: Rockies Rivalry With Giants Has Dissolved to Envy
It is natural to adopt an atrabilious mood about the whole turn of events, especially given the recent citation that a sweep of the Rockies was the ... «Purple Row, Oct 12»
The best words in the English language
I suggest “atrabilious”, from the Latin for black bile, thought by the ancients to be one of the body's four “humours”. As in the aside “I do hate ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 12»
Is Niall Ferguson an "Imperialist Scumbag" or a Brilliant Historian?
America is open, the land of opportunities; England cloistered, riddled with atrabilious left-wingers: "No, they love being provoked by me! «The National Interest Online, Oct 11»
Twilight of the Wise Man
This amounted to a return, in rather more sophisticated form, of the atrabilious hatreds of the 1950s radical right. The neocons supplied a patina ... «Foreign Policy, Oct 11»
