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sanguineocholeric

sanguineocholeric adjective: having a bodily constitution characterised by sanguine and choleric humours.

Adjective

sanguineocholeric (comparative more sanguineocholeric, superlative most sanguineocholeric)

  1. (obsolete) Having a bodily constitution characterised by sanguine and choleric humours.
    • He was of a leonine-coloured haire, sanguinocholerique, middle sized, strong.1669–1696 (date written), John Aubrey, “Samuel Butler (161⅔–1680)”, in Andrew Clark, editor, ‘Brief Lives,’ Chiefly of Contemporaries, […], volume I (A–H), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press...

Forms of sanguineocholeric

comparativemore sanguineocholeric
superlativemost sanguineocholeric
alternative formsanguinocholeric

Origin of sanguineocholeric

From sanguine + -o- + choleric.

Questions about sanguineocholeric

What does sanguineocholeric mean?
Sanguineocholeric means having a bodily constitution characterised by sanguine and choleric humours.
What part of speech is sanguineocholeric?
Sanguineocholeric is an adjective.

Words near sanguineocholeric in the dictionary

  1. sanguined
  2. sanguineless
  3. sanguinely
  4. sanguineness
  5. sanguineobilious
  6. sanguineocholeric
  7. sanguineophlegmatic
  8. sanguineous
  9. sanguineousness
  10. sanguines
  11. sanguiniferous

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