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temperable, a. Now rare.|ˈtɛmpərəb(ə)l|
[prob. ad. med.L. temperābil-is; but perh. f. temper n. and v. + -able: cf. agreeable, customable, peaceable.]
†a. Of weather or climate: = temperate a. 3.
†b. Of a person: = temperate a. 1.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 16 In somer he muste haue temperable eir. c1450Lovelich Grail xxxvi. 496 That he myhte beste herberwed to be, Into Most temperable place Abowtes þe see. 1570Levins Manip. 4/18 Temperable, temperabilis. 1618Bolton Florus i. viii. 30 That the fierce people might bee made temperable, through the feare of the Gods. 1629Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 31 Yet for a while, was the Prince more temperable, out of respect to his Fathers memory, and his Counsellours gravitie.
c. That may be tempered or made plastic.
1841Emerson Ess., Hist. ⁋44 The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals.
Hence temperaˈbility (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). |