Maricopa County Sheriff's Office controversies. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) is a law enforcement agency in Maricopa County, Arizona that has been involved in many controversies since 1995.
It was then used to mean 'a sudden state of activity (or inactivity) or state of mind', as in this early example, taken from William Warner's Albion's England, 1586: His seruants fear his solemn fittes.. The phrase 'fits and starts' is somewhat tautological, as both allude to sporadic activity.
The word melancholy derives from Greek Î¼Î­Î»Î±Î¹Î½Î± ÏÎ¿Î»Î® (melaina kholÃ©) meaning 'black bile', from the belief that an excess of black bile caused depression. Phlegm. Phlegm was thought to be associated with apathetic behavior, as preserved in the word phlegmatic /flÉgËmatÉªk/.