Distemper

Quick meaning: Distemper is a noun meaning (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.

Meaning

(veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.

More Meanings

1. A glue-based paint.
2. (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.
3. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
4. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
5. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
6. To intoxicate.
7. (archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.

Example Sentences

O perplex'd diſcompoſition, O ridling diſtemper, O miſerable condition of Man.

The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.

[M]y spirits began to sink under the Burden of a strong Distemper, and Nature was exhausted with the Violence of the Fever […]

For the Courtiers reeling, And the Duke himselfe, (I dare not say distemperd, But kind, and in his tottering chaire carousing) They doe the countrie service.

Word Forms

• distempers
• distempering
• distempered
• distemperest
• distemperedst
• distempereth

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include epidemical, canine, frenzy, chronical, panleukopenia, panleucopenia.

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