Both Uses of
choleric
in
Candide
- This Issachar was the most choleric Hebrew that had ever been seen in Israel since the Captivity in Babylon.†
Chpt 9 *
- This drove Candide to despair; he had, indeed, endured misfortunes a thousand times worse; the coolness of the magistrate and of the skipper who had robbed him, roused his choler and flung him into a deep melancholy.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(choleric) easily moved to anger; or characterized by anger