Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Intemperate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Intemperate.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
intemperate .
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Examples
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It seemeth that either here, or not far hence, the sea should have more large entrance than in other parts within the frozen or untemperate zone, and that some contrary tide, either from the east or west, with main force casteth out that great quantity of ice which cometh floating from this coast, even unto Friesland, causing that country to seem more untemperate than others much more northerly than the same.
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It seemeth that either here, or not far hence, the sea should have more large entrance than in other parts within the frozen or untemperate zone, and that some contrary tide, either from the east or west, with main force casteth out that great quantity of ice which cometh floating from this coast, even unto Friesland, causing that country to seem more untemperate than others much more northerly than the same.
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage Richard Hakluyt 1584
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