distemperate

English

Etymology

Latin distemperatus, past participle.

Adjective

distemperate (comparative more distemperate, superlative most distemperate)

  1. (obsolete) immoderate
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Raleigh to this entry?)
  2. (obsolete) diseased; disordered
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wodroephe to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for distemperate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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