distemperate

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English, and the Scotch exceeded the latter in "over much and distemperate gormandize."

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  1. Immoderate. Aquinas objecteth the distemperate heat, which he supposes to be in all places directly under the sun. Raleigh, Hist. World.
  2. Diseased; distempered. Thou hast thy brain distemperate and out of rule. Wodroephe, Fr. and Eng. Grammar (1693), p. 295.

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  • English, and the Scotch exceeded the latter in "over much and distemperate gormandize." —  For Whom Shakespeare Wrote
  • Claude, there once was a boy, yo 'size, yo' age, but fierce, selfish, distemperate; still more selfish than yo 'schoolmaster of to-day. " —  Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
  • In Scotland likewise they have given themselves (of late years to speak of) unto very ample and large diet, wherein as for some respect nature doth make them equal with us, so otherwise they far exceed us in over much and distemperate gormandise, and so ingross their bodies that divers of them do oft become unapt to any other purpose than to spend their times in large tabling and belly cheer. —  Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • And if rain be evil and distemperate in its qualities, and discording to place and time, it is grievous and noyful to many things. —  Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
 

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  1. from Middle Latin distemperatus (later Spanish destemplado = Portuguese destemperado), past participle of distemperare, distemper: see distemper, v., and cf. temperate, intemperate.
 

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