† contemperaturen.
Obsolete.
A mixing or blending of elements in proportion or harmony; the balanced or harmonious quality resulting from this.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > due proportion or proportionateness > proportionate mixture
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing > in due proportion
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1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest Pref. f. 27 Their [sc. Plants] smell, which to the learned teacheth their contemperature: for the odor and smell of ech thing doth much bewraie the thing.
1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 187 By a sweet contemperature [1615 (ed. 1) contemperament] of Tune and Ditty, hee entices others to goodnesse.
1650 Bp. J. Hall Revelation Unrevealed xxiv. 164 What an unimaginable commixture of subjects? what a contemperature of heaven and earth?
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) IX. 270 Whether colour be a quality emergent from the different contemperature of the elements.
1853 T. H. Skinner tr. A. Vinet Pastoral Theol. iii. 212 It is a gravity accompanied by tenderness, a severity tempered with sweetness,..the true contemperature of the Christian dispensation.
1888 S. Gilbert in Advance (Chicago) 2 Feb. 65 Peculiarly fortunate in possessing the happiest combination and contemperature of qualities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019).
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