distemperature
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of distemperature
1525–35; obsolete distemperate ( dis- 1 + temperate ) + -ure
Example Sentences
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"Nay, sir," said Alice, "God knows I would rather be silent for ever, than speak what might, as you would take it, add to your present distemperature."
From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott
Tell your master what I said—but not how I said it—Fie, that I should have been betrayed into this distemperature of passion!— begone, sirrah.
From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott
Yet, oft as he hath caught This same distemperature, I know not how To harbour indignation against him.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
I walked about the chamber unable to rid myself either of my sickly qualms, the feverish distemper of my blood, or the still more fevered distemperature of my mind.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft
Diabetes is defined as "An immoderate passage or attraction of urine from the liver to the kidneys and its passage through the kidneys, as the result of a warm or dry distemperature of these organs."
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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