2. Verb. (third-person singular of humor) ¹
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Definition of Humors
1. humor [v] - See also: humor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humors
Literary usage of Humors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli (1841)
"What were these " humors 1" The bard himself does not distinguish them from ...
When this term of "humors" became popular, it sunk into a mystification. ..."
2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1909)
"E. Bremner, of the State Horticultural Commissioner's office, will now read a
paper entitled "humors of the Demonstration Train. ..."
3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"See SIDNEY, P. humors ORDIN ARIE. Where a Man may be verie merrie and exceeding
well used for his Sixe- pence. ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"Shrunk state of the eyeball from evacuation of humors.1 In consequence of extensive
ulcération or sloughing of the cornea, or bursting of the eye, ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"A Monarch, who rules severall Kingdoms, different in humors and Prof- fessions,
must keep them (if possible) in such a Ballance, that neither of them shall ..."
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