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

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 Holcroft, Thomas

To these numerous and complicated diseases of the body, many had superadded distemperature of the mind.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

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 Lowell, James Russell

But my faire Planet, who directs me still, Vnkindly such distemperature doth bring, Makes Summer Winter, Autumne in the Spring, Crossing sweet nature by vnruly will.

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril

By this distemperature of weather much cattel perished, much corne vpon the ground was either destroyed, or greatly empaired.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John