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temperer|ˈtɛmpərə(r)|
[f. temper v. + -er1.]
One who or that which tempers.
1. † One who mixes (obs.); one who prepares (clay, mortar, etc.); one who tempers (steel).
a1617Hieron Wks. II. 2 Still there will be..some temperers of leaven with the sweet lumpe of Gods sacred truth. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. (1622) Pref. 6 Temperers of Lyme and Mortar. 1629in Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scotl. (1876) II. 19 The Wardane Counterwardane Sinker and Temperer of the yrnes. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 883 The needles are now ready for the tempering..they..are carried in boxes to the temperer. 1896Chambers's Jrnl. XIII. 22/2 The temperer requires a supply of water for the sufficient moistening of the clay.
†2. One who or that which allays or mitigates.
1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 6 Whereas cold can without doors receiue no temperer; heat on the contrarie is capable of very many. 1638Rider Hor. Odes i. (1644) 32 O thou my labour's sweetest temperer [L. lenimen].
3. One who uses or advocates temperament in music: see temperament 10.
1829–32Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) II. 140 Do the temperers maintain..that it is possible to mend this passage by any alteration in the intonation?
†4. = crater n. 1, mixing vessel. Obs.
1675Hobbes Odyssey 32 Then Nestor bids one fill the temperer With wine that aged was eleven year. 1676― Iliad i. 452 Filled with sweet wine the Temp'rers stood. |