black bile
noun
one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing gloominess.
Origin of black bile
First recorded in 1790–1800
Words nearby black bile
black bean,
black bear,
black beauty,
black beetle,
black belt,
black bile,
black bindweed,
black birch,
black blizzard,
black bloc,
black body
Example sentences from the Web for black bile
Abscess of the liver depends upon some vice of the blood, the bile, the phlegm or the black-bile.
Gilbertus Anglicus |Henry Ebenezer Handerson
British Dictionary definitions for black bile
Medical definitions for black bile
black bile
n.
One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, supposed to cause melancholy when present in excess.