Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A physically bad state or constitution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A bad state.
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- noun A bad state.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But do not administer hellebore to such persons as are laboring under empyema connected with abscesses, haemoptysis, and intemperament, or any other strong cause, for it will do no good; and if any thing unpleasant occur the hellebore will get the blame of it.
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There was in America noplace, Adams came to believe, for the kind of cultivated intelligence he admired in European political figures, men who intemperament if not in blood were more or less aristocratic.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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There was in America noplace, Adams came to believe, for the kind of cultivated intelligence he admired in European political figures, men who intemperament if not in blood were more or less aristocratic.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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There was in America noplace, Adams came to believe, for the kind of cultivated intelligence he admired in European political figures, men who intemperament if not in blood were more or less aristocratic.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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There was in America noplace, Adams came to believe, for the kind of cultivated intelligence he admired in European political figures, men who intemperament if not in blood were more or less aristocratic.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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There was in America noplace, Adams came to believe, for the kind of cultivated intelligence he admired in European political figures, men who intemperament if not in blood were more or less aristocratic.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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