contemperate
English
editEtymology
editSee contemper.
Verb
editcontemperate (third-person singular simple present contemperates, present participle contemperating, simple past and past participle contemperated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To temper; to moderate.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- Moisten and contemperate the air.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “contemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editItalian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editcontemperate
- inflection of contemperare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editcontemperate f pl
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editLatin
editVerb
editcontemperāte