attemper
Americanverb (used with object)
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to modify or moderate by mixing or blending with something different or opposite.
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to regulate or modify the temperature of.
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to soothe; mollify; mitigate.
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to accommodate; adapt (usually followed byto ).
verb
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to modify by blending; temper
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to moderate or soothe
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to accommodate or bring into harmony
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of attemper
1325–75; Middle English attemperen < Latin attemperāre to adjust ( see at-, temper); replacing Middle English attempren < Middle French attemprer < Latin, as above
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We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness,
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
They are sometimes a little faulty in rhyme and melody: but they are never lame from imbecility. ——he has the happiest wit, Who has discretion to attemper it.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Then to the spring attemper thou thy thought, And let advice rear up thy drooping mind, And leave to weep thy woes unto the wind.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow
It was evident that neither fire nor clothing would, in an habitation like that, attemper the chilling blasts.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
Plowmen can skyll howe to handell oxen in youthe, and attemper their exercises after their strength muche more diligently ought this to be done in bringing vp our children.
From The Education of Children by Richard Sherry
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