Irascible

_ Not Neoptolemus so mirable] [W: Neoptolemus's sire irascible] After all this contention it is difficult to imagine that the critic believes _mirable_ to have been changed to _irascible_. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

As God is the centre of our concupiscible affections, so sin is the object of those we call irascible; and the affections of love and hatred being the ground of all the rest, I must have a great care that I do not mistake or miscarry in them: for if these be placed upon wrong objects, it is impossible any of the rest should be placed upon right ones. ❋ 1637-1708 (1834)

Black George was, in the main, a peaceable kind of fellow, and nothing choleric nor rash; yet did he bear about him something of what the antients called the irascible, and which his wife, if she had been endowed with much wisdom, would have feared. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Recalling his irascible nature, I had to smile, and his presence was so real that I began speaking to his statue: 'How strange it is, Father, that you who ignored English in college and read none of the great novels, who concentrated solely on your engineering work, should have written a book of such merit that they put up a statue of you. ❋ Michener, James (1992)

Therefore hope resides in the higher appetite called the will, and not in the lower appetite, of which the irascible is a part. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

In the onslaught is displayed the animal excitement, the battle rage, which St. Thomas calls the irascible passion: and of this St. Thomas says, what Aristotle says of thymos, that it is an agency to be used by the rational will within due limits. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Furthermore, Mayor McGinn isn't at all "irascible" (prone to anger), Josh "hothead" Feit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Why, then, would Twain appropriate David's name, in this "mighty strike" of a story, for an "irascible," "generally detested" murder victim? ❋ Unknown (2001)

Two KwaZulu-Natal lawyers told Business Day he was "irascible" and impatient on the bench, but he was "revered" for his legal acumen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yes, it's an old-fashioned story complete with villainous parents, an imperious and overbearing elder brother, a rather mousy and pathetic little sister, whimsy abounding, bootstraps, diabolical conspiracies, nefarious schemes, and other Dickensian words such as irascible and obsequious. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In contrast, he believes Mr McCain has been badly advised in his campaign strategy and come across as "irascible". ❋ Unknown (2008)

But it is not contrary to man's nature to be angry, and it is the natural act of a power, namely the irascible; wherefore Jerome says in a letter [* Ep. xii ad Anton. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Lambs and Isiah fighting in practice (rare), then teammate Olden Polynice calling Lambs an asshole, all the brawls, Chuck Daly busting out with "irascible" to describe Billy, plus great excerpts from Laimbeer's retirement presser. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From Russia to Tibet, Egypt to America, Tintin travelled -- accompanied by his faithful dog Snowy and the irascible Captain Haddock - to solve crimes and become an early champion of the rights of local indigenous people in 23 books published from 1929 onwards. ❋ The Guardian (2010)