distemperature

[ dis-tem-per-uh-cher ]

noun

1. a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.

Word History and Origins

Origin of distemperature¹

1525–35; obsolete distemperate ( dis- ¹ + temperate ) + -ure

Example Sentences

This Increase of it is attributed to the Suppression or Non-appearance of their monthly Efflux, which is often erroneous; since the Disorder is not always owing to that Suppression, which is often the Effect of their Distemperature.

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By this distemperature of weather much cattel perished, much corne vpon the ground was either destroyed, or greatly empaired.

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The weather was warme, and without any great shewe of distemperature, only the skye waxed by degrees a little gloomy, yet not so darkened but that the Sunne still and anon, by the power of the brightnesse, brake through the thicke clouds....

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And they would have gone further on still, but the storm increased upon them with much distemperature of the weather, so that they were forced to turn back without remedy.

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And with this Nuno Tristam had been very content, if the roughness of the sea had permitted his boat to reach the land; but the waves were huge and perilous withal, so that he was forced to return to his ship and to make sail, to escape the distemperature of the wind, which was very contrary.

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