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The act of attempering or regulating. [Archaic] Bacon.

Temperately. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Attemperament.

To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften. [Obs.] The antidotes . . . have allayed its bitterness and contempered its malignancy. Johnson.

To temper; to moderate. [Obs.] Moisten and contemperate the air. Sir T. Browne.

The act of tempering or moderating. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. [Obs.] The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.

A kind of painting. See Distemper.

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. [Obs.] When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered. Chaucer.

Distemperature. [Obs.]

Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Unduly. [Obs.]

Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. [Obs.]

Distempered state; distemperature. [Obs.] Feltham.

Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured.

Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. [R.] Harvey.

The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions. God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. Jer. Taylor. Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, fami…

Intemperance. [Obs.]

Intemperate. [Obs.] Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.