INTEMPERATE

a. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion.

2.
a.

Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.

3.
a.

Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather. Most do taste through fond intemperate thirst. Milton. Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing. Ecclus. xxiii. 13.

4.
v.

To disorder. [Obs.]

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