distemperate

English

Etymology

Latin distemperatus, past participle.

Adjective

distemperate (comparative more distemperate, superlative most distemperate)

1. (obsolete) excessive
   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     there is any inconvenience or distemperate heat found

2. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) diseased; disordered
   • 1623, John Wodroephe

     Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.

Derived terms

• distemperately

 

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• premeditates