Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To temper; bring to another, especially a lower, degree with respect to any quality, as warmth; moderate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To temper; to moderate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
temper ; tomoderate .
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See contemper.
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