contemperature

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kənˈtɛmpəɹətjʊə(ɹ)/, /kənˈtɛmpəɹət͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

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contemperature (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      the different contemperature of the elements

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 contemperature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

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Participle

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contemperātūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of contemperātūrus