Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Choler

Choler , noun

[Old English coler, French colère anger, Latin cholera a bilious complaint, from Greek {not transcribed} cholera, from {not transcribed}, cholh`, bile. See Gall, and compare Cholera.]

1.
The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obsolete]
His [Richard Hooker's] complexion... was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. — I. Warton
2.
Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.
He is rash and very sudden in choler. — Shakespeare