attemperate

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin attemperatus. Doublet of attemper.

Pronunciation edit

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA or enPR then please add some!

Adjective edit

attemperate (comparative more attemperate, superlative most attemperate)

Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.
- 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism:
  Hope must be […] attemperate to the promise.

Derived terms edit

attemperately

Verb edit

attemperate (third-person singular simple present attemperates, present participle attemperating, simple past and past participle attemperated)

(archaic) To attemper.

Derived terms edit

attemperator

Part 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit

Verb edit

attemperāte

second-person plural present active imperative of attemperō

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.