distempre
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]distempre
- To distemper
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio cxiii, verso, Sequitur de Gula, column 2:
- This ſynne hath manie ſpeces: […] The fourth is, whan through the greate abundaunce of hys meete, the humours in hys body ben diſtempred.
- This sin [gluttony] has many species: […] The fourth is, when through the great abundance of his meat, the humours in his body be distempered.