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Webster 1913 Edition
Intempestive
Inˊtem-pes′tive
,Adj.
Out of season; untimely.
[Obs.]
Burton.
Intempestive
bashfulness gets nothing. Hales.
Webster 1828 Edition
Intempestive
INTEMPEST'IVE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
intempestive
intempestive
English
Adjective
intempestive (comparative more intempestive, superlative most intempestive)
- (now rare) Untimely, happening at an inappropriate moment.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.106:
- Luxus funerum [display at funerals], shall be taken away, that intempestive expense moderated, and many others.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.106:
Translations
untimely
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Latin
Adjective
intempestīve
- vocative masculine singular of intempestīvus
References
- intempestive in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- intempestive in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “intempestive”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.