irascibility
71irascibly — See irascibility. * * * …
72irascibleness — See irascibility. * * * …
73choler — /kol euhr/, n. 1. irascibility; anger; wrath; irritability. 2. Old Physiol. See yellow bile. 3. Obs. biliousness. [1350 1400; ME colera < ML, L cholera < Gk choléra CHOLERA] * * * …
74evil — evilly, adv. evilness, n. /ee veuhl/, adj. 1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life. 2. harmful; injurious: evil laws. 3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on… …
75Brahms, Johannes — born May 7, 1833, Hamburg died April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria Hungary German composer. The son of a musician, he became a piano prodigy. In 1853 he met the composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife, Clara (see Clara Schumann); Robert… …
76Matthau, Walter — born Oct. 1, 1920, New York, N.Y., U.S. died July 1, 2000, Santa Monica, Calif. U.S. actor. He began his career as a child actor in Yiddish theatre and appeared on Broadway in plays such as Once More, with Feeling (1958) and A Shot in the Dark… …
77Williams, Theodore Samuel — ▪ 2003 “Ted”; “The Splendid Splinter” American baseball player (b. Aug. 30, 1918, San Diego, Calif. d. July 5, 2002, Inverness, Fla.), was the last player in the 20th century to hit over .400 for a season. Williams burst into the American… …
78An Lushan — ▪ Chinese general Introduction Wade Giles romanization An Lu shan , original surname Kang , imperial name Xiongwu born 703, Yingzhou [now Chaoyang, Liaoning province], China died 757, Luoyang, Henan province Chinese general of Iranian… …
79Ephraem Syrus, Saint — ▪ Christian theologian Syrian Aphrem , also called Ephraim the Syrian , Ephraem also spelled Ephrem , bynames Deacon of Edessa and Harp of the Holy Spirit born c. 306, Nisibis, Mesopotamia [now Nusaybin, Turkey] died June 9, 373, Edessa,… …
80Habit — • Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will… …
