temperative

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English

Etymology

Compare Latin temperativus (“soothing”).

Adjective

temperative (comparative more temperative, superlative most temperative)

  1. Having the power to temper something.
    • 1621, Thomas Granger, chapter 1, in A familiar exposition or commentarie on Ecclesiastes wherein the worlds vanity, and the true felicitie are plainely deciphered, page 15:
      Living creatures also are not only fed by the root of the stomach, but by the air drawn in and sent forth by the breath, which is temperative of the heart's heat, nutritive of the animal and vital spirits, and purgative of unnatural vapours.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “temperative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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