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A mode or process of painting; distemper.

Capable of being tempered. The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals. Emerson.

or constituent parts. The common law . . . has reduced the kingdom to its just state and temperament. Sir M. Hale.

Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.

Temperance.

Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.

In a temperate manner.

The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.

Having power to temper. [R.] T. Granger.

Constitution; state; degree of any quality. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. Bacon. Memory depends upon the consistence and the temperature of the brain. I. Watts.…

A tempering, or mixing in due proportion.

Temperance; attemperament. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted. Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise. Hammond.

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

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

Proportionate mixture or combination. "Contemperation of light and shade." Boyle.

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

Distemperature. [Obs.]

Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.