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Meaning of DISTEMPERATURE

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Dis*tem"per*a*ture\ (?; 135), n.
1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold,
   or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air.
   [Obs.]

2. Disorder; confusion. --Shak.

3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper.

         A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and
         foes to life.                         --Shak.

4. Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.

         Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his
         distemperature.                       --Sir W.
                                               Scott.

 

 

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