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

In a temperate manner.

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

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

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

Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Unduly. [Obs.]

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.

In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint. The people . . . who behaved very unwisely and intemperately on that occasion. Burke.

The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.

To obey. [Obs.] Johnson.

Intemperate. [Obs.]

Intemperately. [Obs.]

Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

ining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. Beau. & Fl.

A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

e shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.