distemperature

American  

[dis-tem-per-uh-cher] / dɪsˈtɛm pər ə tʃər /

noun

1. a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.

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Etymology

Origin of distemperature

1525–35; obsolete distemperate ( dis- ¹ + temperate ) + -ure

Example Sentences

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distemperature

Then he spoke of you, Francis, asking whether I had discovered the cause of your recent distemperature.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Can it be so, my son, that thou art brought By mad distemperature against thy sire, On hearing of the irrevocable doom Passed on thy promised bride?

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Then, in addition to these absolute weaknesses, come the disproportions of the body, the distemperature of various organs.

From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight

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 Handerson, Henry Ebenezer

That some phisition be provided to minister by counsell and by phisicke, to kepe and preserve from sicknes, or by skill to cure suche as fall into disease and distemperature.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard