distemperature
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of distemperature
1525–35; obsolete distemperate ( dis- 1 + temperate ) + -ure
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Not now, my son," said the Sub-Prior, "not in this distemperature of mind.
From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
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
There is a very beautiful letter of Archbishop Leighton's to a lady under a similar distemperature of the imagination.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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
Follow us, Doctor; 'tis Flores treacherie That thus hath wrought my sonnes distemperature.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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