Distemperate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Distemperate is an adjective meaning Immoderate, excessive.
Meaning
Immoderate, excessive.
More Meanings
- (of the weather, air or elements) Not temperate, of no good influence for one's confort or soundness; (figuratively) unwholesome, stormy.
- (in the obsoleted theory of humours) Not properly tempered; disordered through excess or deficiency of some constituent; (by extensions, of bodily or mental condition) disordered, out of order; diseased, out of health; ill-conditioned.
Example Sentences
Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include intemperant, temperat, temper'd, disordinate, distantial, dispiteous.
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