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▪ I. † conˈtemperate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. contemperāt-us pa. pple. of contemperāre: see above.]
Tempered by blending or mixture. (Orig. as pple.)
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. iv. in Ashm. (1652) 147 For now both moyst and dry be so contemperate. Ibid., That of them thus contemperate may forth go A temperament not so thyk as the Body ys, Nother so thyn as Water. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 40 Such a contemperate way as shall best please him.
▪ II. † conˈtemperate, v. Obs.
[f. L. contemperāt- ppl. stem of contemperāre: see above.]
1. trans. To blend together; to make into a blended whole.
1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 421/2 Having contemperated and distributed the Soul of Man, by the same proportions and powers.
2. = contemper 2.
1605[see contemperance]. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. x. 326 The mighty Nile and Niger; which doe..moysten, and contemperate the ayre by their exhalations. 1652Sparke Prim. Devot. (1663) 504 Contemperating the gladness and sadness of each other. 1711F. Fuller Med. Gymn. 22 To contemperate the Acrimony of the Blood. 1766Parsons in Phil. Trans. LVI. 196 To contemperate and cool the agitated mass.
3. = contemper 3.
1656Sanderson Serm. (1689) 474 For charity sake to contemperate and accomodate themselves. 1660Stillingfl. Iren. ii. iv. §3 To contemporate the Government of the Church to that of the State. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. ii. iv. 46 Contemperating our own Bodies..so duly to that Distance [from the Sun].
Hence conˈtemperating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1660Stillingfl. Iren. ii. vii. §7 The contemperating the Ecclesiastical Government to the Civil. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. p. cxxvii, I ordered him a contemperating cooling diet. |
