attempered
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[edit]Verb
[edit]attempered
- simple past and past participle of attemper
Adjective
[edit]attempered (comparative more attempered, superlative most attempered)
- Modified by admixture; well blended.
- Of a moderate temperature; mild.
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- Attemper'd Suns arise, / Sweet-beam'd […] .
- Having a moderate temperament; sober.