attemperate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin attemperatus. Doublet of attemper.

Adjective

attemperate (comparative more attemperate, superlative most attemperate)

  1. Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.
    • Hammond
      Hope must be […] attemperate to the promise.

Verb

attemperate (third-person singular simple present attemperates, present participle attemperating, simple past and past participle attemperated)

  1. (archaic) To attemper.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for attemperate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

attemperāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of attemperō

References
  • attemperate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • attemperate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • attemperate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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