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DistemperDistemper Dis*tem"per, n. [See Distemper, v. t., and cf.
Destemprer.]
1. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture
of parts. --Bacon.
Note: This meaning and most of the following are to be
referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four
``humors' in man. See Humor. According to the old
physicians, these humors, when unduly tempered, produce
a disordered state of body and mind.
2. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.
[Obs.]
Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a
distemper uninhabitable. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
3. A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition;
malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to
diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse
distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.
They heighten distempers to diseases. --Suckling.
4. Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion
or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
[Obs.]
Little faults proceeding on distemper. --Shak.
Some frenzy distemper had got into his head.
--Bunyan.
5. Political disorder; tumult. --Waller.
6. (Paint.)
(a) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the
pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or
size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene
painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.
(b) A painting done with this preparation.
Syn: Disease; disorder; sickness; illness; malady;
indisposition; ailment. See Disease. Distemperance
Distemperance Dis*tem"per*ance, n.
Distemperature. [Obs.]
Distemperate
Distemperate Dis*tem"per*ate, a. [LL. distemperatus, p. p.]
1. Immoderate. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
2. Diseased; disordered. [Obs.] --Wodroephe.
Distemperately
Distemperately Dis*tem"per*ate*ly, adv.
Unduly. [Obs.]
Distemperature
Distemperature Dis*tem"per*a*ture (?; 135), n.
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 distemperatures and
foes to life. --Shak.
4. Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.
Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his
distemperature. --Sir W.
Scott.
Distemperment
Distemperment Dis*tem"per*ment, n.
Distempered state; distemperature. [Obs.] --Feltham.
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