Definition of Distemperate

1. a. Immoderate.

Definition of Distemperate

1. Adjective. (obsolete) immoderate ¹

2. Adjective. (obsolete) diseased; disordered ¹

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Definition of Distemperate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Distemperate

distastes
distasting
distasture
distastures
distaunce
distaunces
distaunt
distaves
distearyl
distelfink
distelfinks
distemper
distemper virus
distemperance
distemperances
distemperate (current term)
distemperately
distemperature
distemperatures
distempered
distempering
distemperment
distemperments
distempers
distend
distended
distender
distenders
distending
distends

Literary usage of Distemperate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"distemperate. Immoderate; from dis and temperate. The A'eve Metamorphosis, 1600, MS. ... It is deduced from distemperate, which is itself obsolete. ..."

2. The Southern Review (1829)
"Though he docs not adopt the opinion of those who place paradise under the equinoctial line, he repels the objection of Thomas Aquinas, of "its distemperate ..."

3. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"... inconstant, and distemperate weather, euill for all kinde of cattle, but especially for sheepe tempestuous and immoderate weather, wherewith many ..."

4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1887)
"Claude, there once was a boy, yo' size, yo' age, but fierce, selfish, distemperate; still more selfish than yo' schoolmaster of to-day. ..."

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