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▪ I. distempered, ppl. a.1 (dɪˈstɛmpəd) [f. distemper v.1 + -ed; perh. immed. after OF. destempré immoderate, excessive, deranged, or med.L. distemperātus distemperate.] † 1. Of the weather, air, etc.: Not temperate; inclement; = distemperate a. 1. Obs.1490 Caxton Eneydos xii. 46 Considerynge the wy...
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Distemper (paint)
Distempered surfaces can be easily marked and discoloured, and cannot be washed down, so distemper is best suited to temporary and interior decoration. The technique of painting on distempered surfaces blends watercolours with whiting and glue.
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distempre
† diˈstempre, a. Obs. rare. [a. OF. destempré = L. distemperātus pa. pple.] = distempered.c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. iii. 121 Yif he be distempre and quakiþ for ire.
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Adjective; Not good; unfavorable; negative. * , chapter=10 , title= The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to ...
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Robert Hunt (critic)
After a moralistic critique of 'insanity' permeating the arts, he focuses on his example,
"… But when the ebullitions of a distempered brain are mistaken Exhibition, of which he has published a Catalogue, or rather a farrago of nonsense, unintelligibleness, and egregious vanity, the wild effusions of a distempered
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dyscratic
† dysˈcratic, a. Obs. [f. Gr. δύσκρᾱτος of bad temperament, distempered + -ic.] Affected with dyscrasy; distempered.1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xix. 739 The Blood being habitually weak and withal dyscratick or intemperate.
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Robert Parry (poet)
The full title of Parry's poetry book is "Sinetes passions vppon his fortunes offered for an incense at the shrine of the ladies which guided his distempered
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distemperment
† diˈstemperment Obs. [f. distemper v.1 + -ment. (OF. had destemprement = mélange.)] Distempered condition (of the air, or humours).1582 J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. iii. lxiii. 87 Indispositions that come through distemperment of humours. 1661 Feltham Resolves, Lusoria xxiv. (1709) 584 Some sulphurous ...
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Ruth Osborne (alleged witch)
In the course of the next year or so a number of the farmer's calves became distempered, and he himself contracted epileptic fits.
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distemper
▪ I. distemper, v.1 Now rare. (dɪˈstɛmpə(r)) Also 4 des-, 4–5 distempre, 4–6 dystemper. [f. med.L. *distemperāre, f. dis- 4 + L. temperāre to proportion or mingle properly, to regulate, temper. The verb in this sense is not recorded in OF., nor given in med.L. by Du Cange. But the latter has distemp...
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disframe
† disˈframe, v. Obs. [f. dis- 6 + frame v.] trans. To destroy the frame, form, or system of; to undo the framing of, put out of order, derange.c 1629 Layton Syons Plea Ep. Ded., Our disframed and distempered State, from Head to Foote is all but one sore. 1644 Quarles Barnabas & B. 314, I, the work o...
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distemperate
▪ I. diˈstemperate, a. Obs. or arch. [ad. med.L. distemperāt-us not properly proportioned, mingled, regulated, or ordered, immoderate, excessive (said of the weather, the bodily humours, etc.), f. dis- 4 + L. temperātus tempered, proportioned, regulated, temperate, pa. pple. of temperāre to temper.]...
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untemperature
† unˈtemperature Obs.—1 [un-1 12, 5 b.] Distempered state.a 1604 Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1809) 396 [After the] Earthquake..there followed..a continuall untemperature of the ayre, with a filthy skurfe.
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symmetrial
† symmetrial, a. Obs. rare—1. In 7 symitriall. [f. L. symmetria symmetry + -al1.] = symmetrical 1.1612 tr. Benvenuto's Passenger ii. i. 429 Degenerating, swaruing and digressing from this qualitie, symitriall and iust proportion, there ensues a distempered temperature.
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connutritious
† connuˈtritious, a. Obs.—0 App. only a Dictionary word, originating in an erroneous adaptation (after nutritious) of med.L. connūtrītus, rendering συντεθραµµένος having been nourished together, used by Hippocrates in conjunction with ἐµπεϕυκώς having been inborn, congenitus, congenital. (The regula...
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