distemperature
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of distemperature
1525–35; obsolete distemperate ( dis- 1 + temperate ) + -ure
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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 James Russell Lowell
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 Arthur Richard Shilleto
How bloodily the Sun begins to peer Above yon busky hill! the day looks pale At his distemperature.
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
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
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 Thomas Holcroft
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