inˈtemperately, adv.
[f. intemperate a. + -ly2.]
In an intemperate manner or degree; without moderation; immoderately, excessively.
| 1576 A. Hall Acc. of Quarrell (1815) 34 Hall intemperately sware he would never performe the same. 1620 Venner Via Recta Introd. 3 marg., Aire intemperately cold. 1620 T. Granger Div. Logike 53 Wine intemperately drunke, corrupteth the memorie. 1744 Phil. Trans. XLIII. 136 In Africa..the Soil is as intemperately hot as the Climate. 1765 H. Walpole Otranto v. (1834) 243 Frederic..flung the door intemperately against Manfred, and bolted it inwards. 1775 Adair Amer. Ind. 117 That evil habit of using spirituous liquors intemperately, which they have been taught by the Europeans. 1858 Doran Crt. Fools 96 To laugh intemperately on very small occasion for it. |