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▪ I. distempered, ppl. a.1|dɪˈstɛmpəd|
[f. distemper v.1 + -ed; perh. immed. after OF. destempré immoderate, excessive, deranged, or med.L. distemperātus distemperate.]
†1. Of the weather, air, etc.: Not temperate; inclement; = distemperate a. 1. Obs.
1490Caxton Eneydos xii. 46 Considerynge the wynter that is alle dystempred. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 37 Situat maist comodiusly fra distemprit ayr ande corruppit infectione. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xiv. (1596) 241 They inhabit places distempered, where men become..ill conditioned. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 4 Muse, leaue the wayward Mount to his distempred heate.
†2. Of the bodily humours: = distemperate 2. Hence, disturbed in humour, temper, or feelings; out of humour, vexed, troubled. Obs.
1595Shakes. John iv. iii. 21 Once more to-day well met, distemper'd Lords. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 212 His hastie distempered humour would breed great troubles in the State. 1635R. Brathwait Arcad. Pr. ii. 136 The happy attemperature of his distempered humour. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 1131 From thus distemperd brest..Adam..Speech intermitted thus to Eve renewd. 1762Churchill Ghost iv, Why should the distemper'd Scold Attempt to blacken Men?
3. Disordered, diseased, affected with a distemper.
a. Physically.
1440Generydes (E.E.T.S.) 766 So sodenly..All distemperyd and out of colour clene. c1600Shakes. Sonn. cliii, I, sick withal..thither hied, a sad distemper'd guest, But found no cure. 1688Boyle Final Causes Mat. Things, Vitiated Sight 271 When..reading, she was fain to shut the distempered eye, and imploy only the other. 1718J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. (1730) I. iv. §2 Sick and distempered People. 1784Cowper Task iii. 415 What is weak, Distempered, or has lost prolific powers, Impaired by age. 1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. ii. iii. 192 The insects which have already formed a lodgement in the distempered tree.
b. Mentally disordered, insane. Of persons (obs. or arch.); their brain, mind, fancy, feelings, actions, etc.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. ii. v. §7 Speeches vttered in heat of distempered affection. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Familie v, Griefs without a noise..speak..louder, then distemper'd fears. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxiv. 208 To a Distempered brain. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 807 Distemperd, discontented thoughts. 1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 638 One Thomas, a distempered man..was ordered to be sent to Bedlam for a madman. 1718Free-thinker No. 82 ⁋9 The Lives of most Men are but distempered Dreams. 1727Swift Further Acc. E. Curll Wks. 1755 III. i. 161 His books, which his distempered imagination represented to him as alive. 1805Wordsw. Waggoner iv. 82 As if the Warbler..Upbraided his distempered folly. 1810Crabbe Borough xxii, There they seized him—a distemper'd man. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. xxv. 285 The visions of a distempered fancy. 1857H. Reed Lect. Eng. Poets II. xiv. 166 The darkened and distempered genius of Byron.
4. transf. and fig. Disordered, deranged, distracted, out of joint.
1605Shakes. Macb. v. ii. 15 He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Within the belt of Rule. a1628Preston Serm. bef. his Majestie (1630) 18 We are wont to lay aside cracked vessels, and distempered watches as unusefull. 1649Bp. Reynolds Hosea Ep. 2 The..difficulties under which this distempered Kingdom is now groaning. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. i. 17 Such an irregular distemperd world. 1879Q. Rev. Apr. 414 Those distempered times.
†5. Immoderate, inordinate, intemperate; = distemperate 3. Obs.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 152/2 Verie temperat and modest, seldome or neuer in anie distempered or extraordinarie choler. 1644Laud Wks. (1854) IV. 121 He must answer for his own distempered language. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 90 [He] died through distempered drinking.
†6. Of metal: Deprived of ‘temper’. Obs. rare.
1796Pearson in Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 446 Common annealed, or distempered steel.
Hence diˈstemperedly adv.; also diˈstemperedness.
a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxxiv. (1640) 181 We must pray to God for such a measure of wisedome and patience, that crosses may not work so distemperedly upon us. 1649St. Trials, J. Lilburne (R.), The distemperedness and invenomedness of spirit which is within you. 1832J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 257 Nature..will not suffer such eyes to look distemperedly on her works.
▪ II. † diˈstempered, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. distemper v.2]
1. Diluted; weakened or impaired by dilution.
(In quot. 1621 app. = Badly mixed or tempered. More or less influenced by distempered ppl. a.1)
1621–31Laud Sev. Serm. (1847) 72 If it be laid with ‘untempered’, or ‘distempered morter’, all will be naught. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 330 The Clove..in the morne a pale greene, in the meridian a distempered red. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 106 Great Quantities of distempered Beers, Ales, and other Liquors.
2. Painted in distemper.
1769Dublin Mercury 23 Sept. 1/3 Colour rooms..with fine blue..or any other distempered colours. |
