Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Temperate.
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- verb Obsolete form of
attemper .
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Examples
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He hath also a full fair palace and a noble at the city of Nyse, where that he dwelleth, when him best liketh; but the air is not so attempre, as it is at the city of Susa.
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And Ind is divided in three principal parts; that is, the more that is a full hot country; and Ind the less, that is a full attempre country, that stretcheth to the land of Media; and the three part toward the septentrion is full cold, so that, for pure cold and continual frost, the water becometh crystal.
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And of that men bring but little into this country; for they beyond withhold it for themselves, because it is better and more attempre in kind than the black.
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The ayre alwaie so attempre and pure, that nothyng can be more swiete, more pleasaunte, nor healthsome.
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The ayre alwaie so attempre and pure, that nothyng can be more swiete, more pleasaunte, nor healthsome.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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