temperatelyadv.
/ˈtɛmpərətli/ a. In a temperate manner or degree; moderately; in or with moderation, without excess.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > moderateness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb]
meetlyOE
better?c1225
measurelyc1350
renablyc1350
measurablya1382
skilfullya1387
meanlya1398
moderatelya1398
temperately1398
reasonablyc1400
faira1413
mean1535
competently1541
meanably1577
tarblish1842
mediumly1852
quite1854
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxv If þe heed is temperatlich greete and þe nolle of þe nekke sommedele greet.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. a iv b Blud..is temperatlye hotte and moyste.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xi. sig. G.i Breade..must be temporatly salted.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xix. f. 223 Venus is temperatly colde and moist.
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 91 Oh, how prettily and temperately may half a score Children be maintained with almost Twenty pounds per annum!
1870 J. Bruce Life Gideon xvii. 316 The Lord's own quiet and kindly admonition would excite temperately the fears of Gideon.
b. With self-restraint; without violence or passion; dispassionately; chastely.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adverb]
methelyeOE
methefully?c1225
measurelyc1350
temprelyc1386
moderatelya1398
attemperately1525
temperately1525
modestlyc1550
castigately1707
soberly1849
chastenedly1873
society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [adverb]
chastely1340
continently1554
temperatelya1625
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xli. 127 [He] determyned in hymselfe to answere temporatly.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie v. 31 I temprately must temper mine inuension, To pleade my right in reason not in rage.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Honest Mans Fortune i. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ttttt3v/1 When our affections had their liberty, Or kisses met as temperatelie as The hands of sisters, or of brothers.
a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 63 It must be pardoned by those, who are very regularly and temperately in the wrong.
1818 A. Thomson in Landreth Life & Min. (1869) iv. 168 I and other dissenting ministers firmly but temperately remonstrated against this.
1869 W. H. Ainsworth Hilary St. Ives II. ii. xxiii. 98 When you speak more temperately,..I will answer you.
c. With moderation in eating and drinking; soberly, abstemiously.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [adverb]
soberly1340
temperatelyc1400
abstemiously1625
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > moderation in eating or drinking > [adverb]
temperatelyc1400
sparingly1574
spare1813
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxii. 144 Þai liffe so temperately and so soberly in meet and drink.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 87 He could not..use it temperately, but either would allow us no wine at all, or at one meale drunke off a whole great bottell.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 449 The more temperately they would use it.
1911 N.E.D. at Temperately Mod. A hot climate is not dangerous to those who live temperately.
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