English Dictionary

humorist

名詞

古語 歴史的 廃用

(medicine, now rare, historical) Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist. / (obsolete) Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric.

日本語の意味

(医学的な意味で、現代ではほぼ使用されず）体液説に基づき、健康や気性が体液により決定されると信じる人、体液説支持者 / (古語・廃語）気まぐれで突飛な行動をする人、変わり者

Although considered archaic by modern doctors, the humorist insisted that his patient's melancholy stemmed from an imbalance of black bile.

現代の医師には時代遅れと見なされていたが、その体液説の支持者は患者の憂鬱が黒胆汁の不均衡に由来すると主張した。

意味（1）

(medicine, now rare, historical) Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.

意味（2）

(obsolete) Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric.

She and the duke used to rally me upon my fondness for lord W—m, who was a sort of an humourist, and apt to be in a pet, in which case he would leave the company, and go to bed by seven o'clock in the evening.

意味（3）

A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance.

Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.

意味（4）

One who studies or portrays the humours of people.

humorists （ plural ）