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humour(Latin; “fluid”) In early Western physiological theory, one of the four body fluids thought to determine a person's temperament and features. As hypothesized by Galen, the four cardinal humours were blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile). The variant mixture of these humours in each person determined his “complexion” or temperament and his mental and physical qualities. The ideal person had the perfectly proportioned mixture of the four fluids; a disproportionate amount of one humour created a personality dominated by one set of related emotions (e.g., a choleric man was easily angered, proud, ambitious, and vengeful). humour (US), humor 1. any of various fluids in the body, esp the aqueous humour and vitreous humour 2. Archaic any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
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No references found | The humourlessness of these sublimities seems out of synch with the thoughtful and elegant sobriety of the interior. Today, we are left with the humourlessness of a rigid and dogmatic Hamas in Gaza and the aimlessness of an inept and clueless Fatah in the West Bank, two groups whose inescapable sense of triviality and dissimulation are equivalent for dead weight. This is a humourlessness that David Marr, in his recent Quarterly Essay, says has reached dire proportions under Howard: 'On a long list of John Howard's political achievements in the last decade,' he writes, 'the mood shift of the nation is perhaps the greatest. |
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