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

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

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

There wons within these pleasaunt shady woods, Where neither storm nor sun's distemperature Have power to hurt by cruel heat or cold, ...

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

"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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Coleridge, Henry Nelson