contemperate

English

Etymology

See contemper.

Verb

contemperate (third-person singular simple present contemperates, present participle contemperating, simple past and past participle contemperated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To temper; to moderate.
    • Sir Thomas Browne
      Moisten and contemperate the air.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 contemperate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

contemperate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of contemperare
  2. second-person plural imperative of contemperare
  3. feminine plural of contemperato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

contemperāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of contemperō
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