† unˈtemperate, a. Obs.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
1. a. Of weather, etc.: = intemperate a. 1.
| 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cxxiv. 353 In Castyle there is no thynge but harde rockes and Mountaynes,..and an vntemperate ayre. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 137 Of these vntemperate stormes rose suche a scacety, that wheat was sold at iii.s. iiii.d. the busshell. 1614 Archdeaconry of Essex (MS.) Minutes fol. 101 [The weather] was wett and vntemperate. |
b. Distempered, disordered. rare—1.
| 1539 Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 17 b, [To] the bodyes untemperate, suche meates or drynkes are to be gyven, which be in power contrary to the distemperance. |
2. = intemperate a. 2.
| 1388 Wyclif Ecclus. xxxi. 23 Colre..and gnawyng to an vndiscreet either vntemperat [C.C. Coll. Camb. MS. vntemperaunt] man. 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. xiii. 43 b, [They] that do delite in an vntemperate desyre of speculacion. 1589 Cooper Admon. 2 A lamentable state of time it is, wherin such vntemperat boldenes is permitted. 1607 Markham Cavel. II. 101 If the Ryder haue an vntemperate hand, which euer pulleth..vpon the horses mouth. a 1633 Cary Edw. II (1680) 16 The King, by his untemperate and undiscreet actions, had lost the hearts of his People. |
3. = intemperate a. 3.
| a 1589 Palfreyman Baldwin's Mor. Philos. (1600) 116 Youth vntemperate, and full of carnall affections, quickly turneth the bodye into age. 1592 Nashe P. Penilesse G ij b, Vntemperate venerie, and that hatefull sinne of selfe-loue. 1613 Sherley Trav. Persia 55 Hee that can restraine him⁓selfe from being transported by vntemperate appetites. 1625 Shirley Love Tricks ii. ii, I would not leaue Rufaldo for a world Of rash, vntemperate youth. |
Hence † unˈtemperately adv. Obs.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxxviii. (Bodl. MS.), Wyne drinkinge vntemperatlych is to man kinde..venym. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John ii. 14 b, When their geastes..haue their mouthes out of taste, & powre in drinke vntemperately. 1560 J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 237 b, They hearde also howe vntemperately the Freers that were collocutours handled the matter. 1602 Segar Hon., Mil. & Civ. iv. i. 209 He that immoderately and vntemperately pampereth his own body. |