attemperate

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin attemperatus. Doublet of attemper.

Pronunciation

  • Adjective:
    • IPA(key): /əˈtɛm.pə.ɹət/
  • Verb:
    • /əˈtɛm.pə.ɹeɪt/

Adjective

attemperate (comparative more attemperate, superlative most attemperate)

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

Derived terms

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) To attemper.

Derived terms

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Verb

attemperāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of attemperō

References

  • “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.
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