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Definition of distemperate

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adj

  1. (obsolete)Immoderate, excessive.
    “Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.”
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adj

  1. (obsolete)Immoderate, excessive.
    “Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.”
  2. (obsolete)Not temperate, of no good influence for one's confort or soundness; (figuratively) unwholesome, stormy.
  3. (obsolete)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.

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Etymology

First attested in 1398, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English distemperat(e), borrowed from Medieval Latin distemperātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + temperātus, perfect passive participle of temperō (“to temperate oneself, show restraint”).

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