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distempered(2)(dictionary)

distempered(1) (iou)



distempered ppl adjective1. LME.
[from DISTEMPER verb1 + -ED1, perh. immed. after Old French destempre immoderate, deranged, or late Latin distemperatus DISTEMPERATE.]
Diseased; affected by a mental or physical disorder; now esp. (of feelings, ideas, etc.), disordered, disturbed. LME.
Shakespeare Sonnets I, sick withal..thither hied, a sad distemper'd guest, But found no cure. Swift His books, which his distempered imagination represented to him as alive.
= DISTEMPERATE 1. L15-E17.
(Of the bodily humours) = DISTEMPERATE 2; disturbed in temper or feelings; ill-humoured, troubled, vexed. L16-M18.
= DISTEMPERATE 3. L16-M17.
W. Laud He must answer for his own distempered language.
Disordered, spoiled, out of joint. E17.
E. Reynolds The..difficulties under which this distempered Kingdom is now groaning.
distemperedly adverb M17.
distemperedness noun M17.