单词 | intemperate |
释义 | intemperateadj. 1. Not temperate, excessive, extreme; esp., of climate or weather, inclement, severe. Now rare. intemperate zone, the Torrid or Frigid zone, as opposed to the Temperate zone. 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 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KK I wyll..nat departe, for all this intemperate heate. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 91 The Two intemp'rate Zones. 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 463 The Zones are either Temperate or Intemperate, and the Intemperate are either Cold or Hot. c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches II. 139 A cold intemperate mind. 2. Of persons, their actions, or habits: Without temperance or moderation; going beyond due bounds; immoderate, unbridled; violent. 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 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [adjective] > going too far > going or gone beyond bounds hoflesc1175 superfluea1425 insolent?a1500 intemperate1508 overgone1581 excurrent1605 exorbitant1621 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 217 Traitour, tyran intemperate. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Z7v Such, as hauing all their substance spent In wanton ioyes, and lustes intemperate. 1688 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 271 Many intemperate Speeches and passages happend. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. x. 290 The most unhappy consequences, which would otherwise have arisen from the intemperate zeal of the reformers. 1799 Hook in Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 40 General Baird requested permission to withdraw his intemperate appeal. 1875 A. Helps On Choice of Agents in Ess. 76 You will often find that men who are intemperate in speech are cautious in writing. 3. a. Characterized by or addicted to excessive indulgence in a passion or appetite. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure intemperatec1430 untemperate1557 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 258 Unfructuous talkyng, intemperat diete. c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 100 Through intemperate liuing driue our self in sicknes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 98 His concupiscible intemperate lust. View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 239 Several Diseases raged among them, springing chiefly from intemperate Drinking. 1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 12 Men are held intemperate.., only when their desires overcome or prevent the action of their reason, and they are indeed intemperate in the exact degree in which such prevention or interference takes place. b. spec. Given to the immoderate use of intoxicating drink; addicted to drinking. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > alcoholic or addicted to drinking drunkensomea1300 drunkelew1362 drunksomec1475 drunken1548 boozing1569 boozy1592 bousy1592 moisty1593 unsober1611 upsy-friesy1617 moist1619 sottish1632 swilling1633 bibacious1663 intemperate1680 swill-bellied1680 swill-down1693 wet1699 potative1737 compotatory1817 alcoholic1845 drinking1856 bibulous1861 on the drink1865 1680 W. Temple Ess. Cure of Gout in Miscellanea 233 I do not allow the pretence of Temperance to all such as are seldom or never drunk..men may..be intemperate every day, without being drunk perhaps once in their lives. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 294/2 Intemperate persons..care not which End goes first so they can get Drink. 1793 J. Beattie Elem. Moral Sci. II. iii. iii. 111 Men habitually intemperate justly forfeit the esteem of their fellow-citizens; because they disqualify themselves for every duty. 1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 254 A man..of a muscular frame and good constitution, but of intemperate habits. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † intemperatev. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To render intemperate; to disorder, distemper. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pervert from natural or moral order disorder1576 inordinate1646 intemperate1654 deordinate1688 1654 T. Whitaker Blood of Grape 92 The fifth age is virill, and the media between young and old age; yet doth it not so participate of either, as to affect, or intemperate it [1638 p. 44 as that it is intemperate, or infected thereby]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.c1430v.1654 |
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