distemperedadj.¹

/dɪˈstɛmpəd/

Etymology: < distemper v.¹ + -ed suffix¹; perhaps immediately after Old French destempré immoderate, excessive, deranged, or medieval Latin distemperātus distemperate adj.

†1. Of the weather, air, etc.: Not temperate; inclement; = distemperate adj. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective]

starkOE

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1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xii. 46 Considerynge the wynter that is alle dystempred.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 29 Situat maist comodiusly, fra distemprit ayr ande corruppit infectione.

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiv. 241 They inhabit places distempered, where men become..ill conditioned.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 4 Muse, leaue the wayward Mount to his distempred heate.

†2. Of the bodily humours: = distemperate adj. 2. Hence, disturbed in humour, temper, or feelings; out of humour, vexed, troubled. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective]

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glumpish1800

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stuffy1825

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glummy1884

humpy1889

scowly1951

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. iii. 21 Once more today well met, distemper'd Lords.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 212 His hastie distempered humour would breed great troubles in the State.

1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse ii. 136 The happy attemperature of his distempered humour.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1131 From thus distemperd brest, Adam..Speech intermitted thus to Eve renewd.

1763 C. Churchill Ghost iv. 165 Why should the distemper'd Scold Attempt to blacken Men?

3. Disordered, diseased, affected with a distemper.

a. Physically.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased

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sicklea1000

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sickish1581

valetudinary1581

not well1587

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dauncy1846

stricken1846

peakyish1853

po'ly1860

pindling1861

rough1882

rocky1883

suffering1885

wabbit1895

icky-boo1920

like death warmed up1924

icky1938

ropy1945

crappy1956

hanging1971

sick as a parrot1982

shite1987

1440 Generydes (E.E.T.S.) 766 So sodenly..All distemperyd and out of colour clene.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cliii. sig. I4^v I sick withall..thether hied a sad distemperd guest. But found no cure.

1688 R. Boyle Vitiated Sight in Disquis. Final Causes Nat. Things 271 When..reading, she was fain to shut the distempered eye, and imploy only the other.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. iv. ii. 38 Sick and Distemper'd People.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 415 What is weak, Distempered, or has lost prolific powers, Impaired by age.

1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. ii. iii. 192 The insects which have already formed a lodgement in the distempered tree.

b. Mentally disordered, insane. Of persons (obsolete or arch.); their brain, mind, fancy, feelings, actions, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

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out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

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beside one's patience1490

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fanatic1533

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daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

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insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

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distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

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insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

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beside one's gravity1716

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out of one's head1733

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wrong1765

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beside one's wits1827

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off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

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potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

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mental1927

phooey1927

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squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. v. 109 Speeches vttered in heate of distempered affection.

1633 G. Herbert Familie in Temple v Griefs without a noise..speak..louder, then distemper'd fears.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 208 To a Distempered brain.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 807 Distemperd, discontented thoughts.

1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 638 One Thomas, a distempered man..was ordered to be sent to Bedlam for a madman.

1716 A. Pope Further Acct. E. Curll 20 His Books, which his distemper'd Imagination represented to him as alive.

1719 Free-thinker No. 82. 2 The Lives of most Men are but distempered Dreams.

1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner iv. 82 As if the Warbler..Upbraided his distempered folly.

1810 G. Crabbe Borough xxii. 308 There they seiz'd him—a distemper'd Man.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxv. 285 The visions of a distempered fancy.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) II. xiv. 166 The darkened and distempered genius of Byron.

4. transferred and figurative. Disordered, deranged, distracted, out of joint.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] > put out of order

misordered1538

mistempered?1541

disordered?a1560

disturbed1593

disarrayed1600

disranked1606

disadjusted1611

distempereda1616

unhinged1719

disarranged1761

deranged1796

perturbed1799

ree-raw1800

perturbate1823

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. ii. 15 He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Within the belt of Rule.

a1628 J. Preston Serm. before His Majestie (1630) 18 We are wont to lay aside cracked vessels, and distempered watches as unusefull.

1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) Ep. 2 The..difficulties under which this distempered Kingdom is now groaning.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature i. 17 Such an irregular distemperd world.

1879 Q. Rev. Apr. 414 Those distempered times.

†5. Immoderate, inordinate, intemperate; = distemperate adj. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective]

outragea1325

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unskilfulc1370

delavyc1380

unordinatea1398

excess?a1400

untemperatea1425

unmannered1435

immoderate1497

insolent?a1500

surfeitc1500

intemperate1508

exceedinga1513

unsober1535

intemperant1542

distemperate1557

distempered1587

intemperous1614

acrasial1845

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 152/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Verie temperat and modest, seldome or neuer in anie distempered or extraordinarie choler.

1644 W. Laud Wks. (1854) IV. 121 He must answer for his own distempered language.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 90 [He] died through distempered drinking.

†6. Of metal: Deprived of ‘temper’. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1796 G. Pearson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 446 Common annealed, or distempered steel.

Derivatives

diˈstemperedly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adverb]

distemperatelya1398

thraftlya1578

darkly1597

moodily1611

mustily1620

distemperedlya1639

sullenly1650

morosely1654

sullen1718

grumly1727

ill-humouredly1795

sulkily1796

sumphishly1850

biliously1865

glumpily1865

farouchely1931

frumpily1934

a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxxiv. 181 We must pray to God for such a measure of wisedome and patience, that crosses may not work so distemperedly upon us.

1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 257 Nature..will not suffer such eyes to look distemperedly on her works.

diˈstemperedness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun]

melancholya1393

morosity1534

distemperature1571

distemperance1574

diverseness1574

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canker?1635

distemperedness1649

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tetricalness1653

moodiness1694

dishumour1712

ill humour1748

sulkiness1760

stuff1787

funk1808

sumphishness1830

spleenishness1847

moodishness1857

grouchiness1925

1649 C. Walker Triall J. Lilburne 35 The distemper'dnesse and invenom'dnesse of spirit which is within you.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	distempered
释义	distemperedadj.¹ /dɪˈstɛmpəd/ Etymology: < distemper v.¹ + -ed suffix¹; perhaps immediately after Old French destempré immoderate, excessive, deranged, or medieval Latin distemperātus distemperate adj. †1. Of the weather, air, etc.: Not temperate; inclement; = distemperate adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] starkOE unkindc1330 foulc1390 distemperate1398 distempered1490 untemperate1525 intemperate1526 naughty1541 intempered1556 unkindly1579 sour1582 unclement1598 filthy1600 nasty1634 dirty1660 inclement1667 inclemental1709 wretched1711 foul-weather1750 ungenial1816 wersh1830 shabby1853 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xii. 46 Considerynge the wynter that is alle dystempred. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 29 Situat maist comodiusly, fra distemprit ayr ande corruppit infectione. 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiv. 241 They inhabit places distempered, where men become..ill conditioned. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 4 Muse, leaue the wayward Mount to his distempred heate. †2. Of the bodily humours: = distemperate adj. 2. Hence, disturbed in humour, temper, or feelings; out of humour, vexed, troubled. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective] moodyc1300 distemprec1374 melancholiana1393 solein1399 darkc1440 gloomingc1440 girning1447 melancholyc1450 tetrical1528 tetric1533 distemperate1548 morose1565 sullen1570 stunt1581 humorous1590 gloomya1593 muddy1592 clum1599 dortya1605 humoursome1607 distempereda1616 musty1620 grum1640 agelastic1666 fusty1668 purdy1668 ill-humoured1693 gurly1721 mumpish1721 sunking1724 tetricous1727 sumphish1728 stunkard1737 sulky1744 muggard1746 farouche1765 sombrea1767 glumpy1780 glumpish1800 tiffy1810 splenitive1815 stuffy1825 liverish1828 troglodytish1866 glummy1884 humpy1889 scowly1951 a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. iii. 21 Once more today well met, distemper'd Lords. View more context for this quotation 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 212 His hastie distempered humour would breed great troubles in the State. 1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse ii. 136 The happy attemperature of his distempered humour. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1131 From thus distemperd brest, Adam..Speech intermitted thus to Eve renewd. View more context for this quotation 1763 C. Churchill Ghost iv. 165 Why should the distemper'd Scold Attempt to blacken Men? 3. Disordered, diseased, affected with a distemper. a. Physically. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased untrumc825 sickc888 unwholec888 slackc897 unstronga900 sicklea1000 sam-halea1023 worseOE attaint1303 languishinga1325 heallessc1374 sicklyc1374 sicklewa1387 bada1393 mishalea1400 languoring?c1425 distempered1440 unwell?c1450 detent?a1475 poora1475 languorousc1475 maladif1481 illa1500 maladiousc1500 wanthriven1508 attainted1509 unsound1513 acrazed1521 cracked1527 unsoundya1529 visited1537 infirmed1552 crazed1555 healthless1568 ill-liking1572 afflicted1574 crazy1576 unhealthful1580 sickish1581 valetudinary1581 not well1587 fainty1590 ill-disposed1596 unhealthsome1598 tainted1600 ill-affected1604 peaking1611 unhealthy1611 infirmited1616 disaffected1626 physical1633 illish1637 pimping1640 invalid1642 misaffected1645 valetudinarious1648 unhale1653 badly1654 unwholesome1655 valetudinous1655 morbulent1656 off the hooksa1658 mawkish1668 morbid1668 unthriven1680 unsane1690 ailing1716 not wellish1737 underlya1742 poorly1750 indifferent1753 comical1755 maladized1790 sober1808 sickened1815 broken-down1816 peaky1821 poorlyish1827 souffrante1827 run-down1831 sicklied1835 addle1844 shaky1844 mean1845 dauncy1846 stricken1846 peakyish1853 po'ly1860 pindling1861 rough1882 rocky1883 suffering1885 wabbit1895 icky-boo1920 like death warmed up1924 icky1938 ropy1945 crappy1956 hanging1971 sick as a parrot1982 shite1987 1440 Generydes (E.E.T.S.) 766 So sodenly..All distemperyd and out of colour clene. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cliii. sig. I4^v I sick withall..thether hied a sad distemperd guest. But found no cure. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Boyle Vitiated Sight in Disquis. Final Causes Nat. Things 271 When..reading, she was fain to shut the distempered eye, and imploy only the other. 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. iv. ii. 38 Sick and Distemper'd People. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 415 What is weak, Distempered, or has lost prolific powers, Impaired by age. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. ii. iii. 192 The insects which have already formed a lodgement in the distempered tree. b. Mentally disordered, insane. Of persons (obsolete or arch.); their brain, mind, fancy, feelings, actions, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. v. 109 Speeches vttered in heate of distempered affection. 1633 G. Herbert Familie in Temple v Griefs without a noise..speak..louder, then distemper'd fears. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 208 To a Distempered brain. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 807 Distemperd, discontented thoughts. View more context for this quotation 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 638 One Thomas, a distempered man..was ordered to be sent to Bedlam for a madman. 1716 A. Pope Further Acct. E. Curll 20 His Books, which his distemper'd Imagination represented to him as alive. 1719 Free-thinker No. 82. 2 The Lives of most Men are but distempered Dreams. 1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner iv. 82 As if the Warbler..Upbraided his distempered folly. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough xxii. 308 There they seiz'd him—a distemper'd Man. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxv. 285 The visions of a distempered fancy. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) II. xiv. 166 The darkened and distempered genius of Byron. 4. transferred and figurative. Disordered, deranged, distracted, out of joint. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] > put out of order misordered1538 mistempered?1541 disordered?a1560 disturbed1593 disarrayed1600 disranked1606 disadjusted1611 distempereda1616 unhinged1719 disarranged1761 deranged1796 perturbed1799 ree-raw1800 perturbate1823 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. ii. 15 He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Within the belt of Rule. View more context for this quotation a1628 J. Preston Serm. before His Majestie (1630) 18 We are wont to lay aside cracked vessels, and distempered watches as unusefull. 1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) Ep. 2 The..difficulties under which this distempered Kingdom is now groaning. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature i. 17 Such an irregular distemperd world. 1879 Q. Rev. Apr. 414 Those distempered times. †5. Immoderate, inordinate, intemperate; = distemperate adj. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective] outragea1325 unskilwisea1340 unskilfulc1370 delavyc1380 unordinatea1398 excess?a1400 untemperatea1425 unmannered1435 immoderate1497 insolent?a1500 surfeitc1500 intemperate1508 exceedinga1513 unsober1535 intemperant1542 distemperate1557 distempered1587 intemperous1614 acrasial1845 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 152/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Verie temperat and modest, seldome or neuer in anie distempered or extraordinarie choler. 1644 W. Laud Wks. (1854) IV. 121 He must answer for his own distempered language. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 90 [He] died through distempered drinking. †6. Of metal: Deprived of ‘temper’. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1796 G. Pearson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 446 Common annealed, or distempered steel. Derivatives diˈstemperedly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adverb] distemperatelya1398 thraftlya1578 darkly1597 moodily1611 mustily1620 distemperedlya1639 sullenly1650 morosely1654 sullen1718 grumly1727 ill-humouredly1795 sulkily1796 sumphishly1850 biliously1865 glumpily1865 farouchely1931 frumpily1934 a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxxiv. 181 We must pray to God for such a measure of wisedome and patience, that crosses may not work so distemperedly upon us. 1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 257 Nature..will not suffer such eyes to look distemperedly on her works. diˈstemperedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] melancholya1393 morosity1534 distemperature1571 distemperance1574 diverseness1574 sullennessa1586 spleen1596 distemper1604 mustinessa1625 canker?1635 distemperedness1649 moroseness1653 tetricalness1653 moodiness1694 dishumour1712 ill humour1748 sulkiness1760 stuff1787 funk1808 sumphishness1830 spleenishness1847 moodishness1857 grouchiness1925 1649 C. Walker Triall J. Lilburne 35 The distemper'dnesse and invenom'dnesse of spirit which is within you. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † distemperedadj.² Etymology: < distemper v.² Obsolete. 1. Diluted; weakened or impaired by dilution.In quot. 1621-31 apparently = Badly mixed or tempered. More or less influenced by distempered adj.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > faint or weak wateryOE dima1250 lighta1398 rare?1440 delayed1543 faint1552 weak1585 pale1598 distempered1621 washya1639 thin1649 languid1663 dilute1665 welmish1688 sickly1695 dimmed1863 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > weak or diluted smallc1420 thinc1440 single1483 watered1540 smally1577 distempered1743 shilpit1814 seven-water grog1834 three-water1840 two-water1905 1621–31 W. Laud Seven Serm. (1847) 72 If it be laid with ‘untempered’, or ‘distempered morter’, all will be naught. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 330 The Clove..in the morne a pale greene, in the meridian a distempered red. 1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 106 Great Quantities of distempered Beers, Ales, and other Liquors. 2. Painted in distemper. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [adjective] > painted in distemper distempered1769 1769 Dublin Mercury 23 Sept. 1/3 Colour rooms..with fine blue..or any other distempered colours. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.¹1440adj.²1621
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