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Middle English
Verb
distempre
- To distemper
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
folio cxiii, verso, Sequitur de Gula, column 2:
This ſynne hath manie ſpeces: […] The fourth is, whan through the greate abundaunce of hys meete, the humours in hys body ben diſtempred.- This sin has many species: The fourth is, when through the great abundance of his meat, the humours in his body be distempered.