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tepid, a.|ˈtɛpɪd|
Also 5 teped, 6 tepit.
[ad. L. tepid-us lukewarm, f. tepēre to be warm. So obs. or dial. F. tépide (16th c. in Godef.).]
Moderately or slightly warm; lukewarm. a. lit. (Usually in reference to liquids.)
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurgie 137 He worchiþ riȝtfulliche þat vsiþ teped oilis. 1626Bacon Sylva §346 For as a great heat keepeth bodies from putrefaction, but a tepid heat inclineth them to putrefaction. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 201 Let the Water stand in the Sun till it grow tepid. 1744Berkeley Siris §78 A blister on the spot, and plenty of tepid tar-water. 1884F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer ii, A cold sirocco, bringing showers of tepid rain from the south.
b. fig. = lukewarm 2.
1513Douglas æneis xi. Prol. 60 Gyf Crystis faithfull knychtis lyst ws be,..Than man we..Nowder be abasit, tepit, nor ȝit blunt. 1641Gauden Love of Truth 30 A tepid and Laodicean love. 1740Cheyne Regimen 333 Of the two Evils, Infidelity and Tepidity is..the worst..in regard of the Infidels and Tepid themselves. 1873H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. viii. (1874) 179 Remind them of certain precepts..in the creed they profess, and the most you get is a tepid assent. 1926Scribner's Mag. Sept. 259/2 Her smile said that pastels were thin things for tepid people. 1941A. Christie Evil under Sun x. 197 Some tepid little man, vain and sensitive—the kind of man who broods.
Hence ˈtepidly adv., in a tepid or lukewarm manner; ˈtepidness = tepidity. So † ˈtepidous a., tepid, lukewarm (obs.).
1696Phillips (ed. 5), *Tepidly, lukewarm. 1873H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. viii. (1874) 179 The precepts tepidly assented to.
1821Byron Diary Poet. Wks. (1846) 510/2 Some *tepid-ness on the part of Kean, or warmth on that of the author. 1903Ld. Rosebery in Westm. Gaz. 13 Oct. 8/2 This may explain a slight tepidness on the part of Australia.
1607J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 186 Those Angells..which were sometime *tepidous and backeward. |