distemperature
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of distemperature
1525–35; obsolete distemperate ( dis- 1 + temperate ) + -ure
Example Sentences
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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
What obstructions, what irruptions of blood into the air-vessels, what distemperature of heat, what overflow of humours, do not result?
From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard
That soul so softly radiant and so white 210 The track it left seems less of fire than light, Cold but to such as love distemperature?
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
Tell how the world fell into this disease; And how so great distemperature did grow; So shall we see with what degrees it came; How things at full do soon wax out of frame.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
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 Holcroft, Thomas
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