Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To disturb; disorder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To temper ill; to disorder.

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  • verb To temper ill; to disorder.

Etymologies

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mis- +‎ temper

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Examples

  • It was the mistemper of a noble soul, that is severed from all earthly things, and yet devoted to unbounded woe.

    Chapter XI. Book V 1917

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