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† contempeˈration Obs.
Also 7– -temporation.
[a. F. contempération (15th c., Froissart), ad. L. contemperātiōn-em proper mixture, n. of action f. contemperāre: see above.]
1. A blending together or commingling of elements of different character; blended condition.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) v. vii. 417 The contemperacyon of the foure elementes of the whiche the body humayne is composed. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry i. iii. (1660) 17 Mixed colours..are raised by the contemperation or mixture of the two Simples. 1627–8Feltham Resolves i. lxiv. (1677) 98 The perfection of the body, in his even contemperation. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §4. 6 A certain proportionate Contemperation and Commixture of Contingency and Necessity.
b. concr. The product of such commingling.
1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. ii. 203 What we call by that name [the Soul] is only a Contemperation of Corporeal Humors.
2. The action of tempering, moderating, or qualifying by mixture.
1638T. Whitaker Blood of Grape 51 By way of contemperation of the heate. 1666Spurstowe Spir. Chym. (1668) 221 The Contemperation of it [the Word] with humane mixtures. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies iii. i. 364 Then the Weather will favour of the Contemperation of the contrary, and be Placid and Temperate.
b. with pl. A qualifying addition or admixture.
1649Bp. Reynolds Hosea vii. 137 We deliver nothing unto the people but the Right wayes of the Lord, without any..contemporations of our owne. 1655Fuller Antheologia in Cause & Cure (1867) 313 With a proportionable contemperation of red therein. a1676Hale True Relig. (1684) 24.
3. Adaptation, adjustment, accommodation.
1654Hammond Answ. Animadv. Ignat. vii. §6. 202 The contemperation..of the Ecclesiastick to the Civil distributions. 1677Howe Reconcil. God's Prescience Wks. (1834) 126/1 With an apt contemperation to the subject. a1680J. Corbet Free Actions iii. xx. (1683) 41 A certain contemporation of the Divine Call and Free-will.
4. Accommodation to opposite courses of action by blending both; compromise.
1650B. Discollim. 45 Allowed the full benefit of all the..tergiversations, excusations, contemporations, pernegations..that I..can devise. 1677Hale Pomp. Atticus 205 By these prudent Contemporations he made his Liberality safe. 1677― Contempl. ii. 166 They divide their Affections too equally between God and the world, and..indeavour such a Contemperation that they may hold both. |