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Webster 1913 Edition
Distemperature
Dis-tem′per-a-ture
(?; 135)
, Noun.
1.
Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities;
as, the
. distemperature
of the air[Obs.]
2.
Disorder; confusion.
Shak.
3.
Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper.
A huge infectious troop
Of pale
Of pale
distemperatures
and foes to life. Shakespeare
4.
Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.
Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his
distemperature
. Sir W. Scott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Distemperature
DISTEMPERATURE
,Noun.
1.
Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; a noxious state; as the distemperature of the air of climate.2.
Violent tumultuousness; outrageousness.3.
Perturbation of mind.4.
Confusion; commixture of contrarieties; loss of regularity; disorder.5.
Slight illness; indisposition.Definition 2024
distemperature
distemperature
English
Noun
distemperature (plural distemperatures)
- (now rare) A state of adverse or unhealthy atmospheric conditions.
- (now rare) Unhealthy imbalance of bodily humours; a disorder.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.224:
- Standing waters, thick and ill-coloured, […] cause foul distemperatures in the body and mind of man […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.224: