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Distemper
Distemper 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.

Meaning of Stempe from wikipedia

- Schrettele, Schrotle, Schrotlein, Schrsttel, Stampare, Stampen, Stampfen, Stempe, Sukkubus, Toggeli, Trampling, Trempe, Trud, Trude, Trutte, Tryd, Tudd,...
- Hussey George Darrell 1554 (Apr) Robert Gage George Darrell 1554 (Nov) John Stempe John Morley 1555 William Devenish Thomas Gravesend 1558 John Gage William...
- Parliament of England Preceded by Henry Hussey George Darrell Member of Parliament for Lewes 1554 With: George Darrell Succeeded by John Stempe John Morley...
- 1584 Mr. James 1591 Parson Dithey or Disley 1591 Thomas Stempe 1594 Mr. Jones 1607 Thomas Stempe 1608 Mr. Newby 1609 Mr. Munday 1644 William Clunn 1675...
- unable to interpret it, but suggested variously that it was connected to Stempe, a name of Berchte, that she was named for an ****ociation with a sieve,...
- Bavaria, and Tyrol, the souls of unbaptized children forming the retinue of Stempe (i.e. Perchta) are called Schrätlein. Like Perchta, the schretelen were...