distemperate
English
Etymology
Latin distemperatus, past participle.
Adjective
distemperate (comparative more distemperate, superlative most distemperate)
- (obsolete) excessive
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- there is any inconvenience or distemperate heat found
- Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.
Derived terms
References
- “distemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.