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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Diseased or disordered.
- Put out of temper; ruffled; ill-disposed; disaffected.
- Deprived of temper or moderation; immoderate; intemperate: as, distempered zeal.
- Disordered; prejudiced; perverted: as, distempered minds.
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of distemper.
Etymologies
- From Middle English distemperen, to upset the balance of the humors, from Old French destemprer, to disturb, from Late Latin distemperāre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin temperāre, to mix properly.Middle English distemperen, to dilute; see distemper1.
Examples
“The latter comprised three cooks to the gangs, one of whom had lost a hand; a groom, three hog tenders, of whom one was ruptured, another "distempered" and the third a ten-year-old boy, and ten aged idlers including Quashy Prapra and Abba's Moll to mend pads, Yellow's Cuba and”
“There were wall bookcases with glass doors, a few oak-framed engravings with a pale-green, "distempered" background, several chintz-covered sofas with cushions, and plenty of easy chairs.”
“It lay there in a wide distempered circle and then gathered itself together to jam at my feet and to giggle and to whee, and to laugh and to fall again into a puddle and to flatten out like pancake batter on a griddle...flat, but gelatin like, to pull in and regroup and to come at me again.”
“As you may recall, Obama's fans quickly established a reputation of acting like brain-damaged weasels or rabid squirrels or distempered hyenas or crazed dingos or foul-mouthed Philistines or huns, or other such creatures.”
“He started walking farther up the beach, toward the Liquidora, a circling, chaotic eddy of currents the locals avoided and which was particularly distempered this evening.”
“On exactly the same grounds, would we bid our readers avoid works of distempered excitement; even when such are of the highest excellence in their class, as those of Ellis Bell and”
“April had always seemed to be one of the most miserable months in the calender to her'the weather was hideously distempered, changing every few moments, and all of the changes unpleasant.”
“Even in my distempered state, that sounded damned odd.”
“The walls were cream distempered, and the paint was grey.”
“There was only a single, negative review, in "The Examiner," whose critic called the pictures "the wild effusions of a distempered brain.”
The Wall Street Journal: Planet to Pixel: Ruff Abstractions of the Universe
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stega45 MISTAKE:
"The walls were cream distempered, and the paint was grey."
— Fictionaut, “In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs”
IN FACT, this quotation is from Landfall by Nevil Shute! Jun 10, 2011