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ortionate; 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.

ing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency. A distemper eminently armed from heaven. De Foe.

Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers. [Obs.] Cheyne.

That which restrains or confines as a girdle. He cannot buckle his distempered cause Within the belt of rule. Shak.

A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb.

Unfailing; infallible. I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper. Mead.

happiness of both. Macaulay. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood. Shak.

Healing the distemper of cows.

A kind of painting. See Distemper.

give potions to, constantly and without need. A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum artem." South

a cover to hold burning coals. -- Dutch pink, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. Weale. -- Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (E. hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; -- called also scouring rush, and…

Dycrasia. Sin is a cause of dycrasies and distempers. Jer. Taylor.

To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow. In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed. Milton.

Mad; frantic. [R.] They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head. Bunyan.