attemperate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin attemperatus. Doublet of attemper.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editattemperate (comparative more attemperate, superlative most attemperate)
- Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.
- 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism:
- Hope must be […] attemperate to the promise.
Derived terms
editVerb
editattemperate (third-person singular simple present attemperates, present participle attemperating, simple past and past participle attemperated)
Derived terms
editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “attemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
editVerb
editattemperāte
References
edit- “attemperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “attemperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- attemperate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.