attemperate

Borrowed from Latin attemperatus. Doublet of attemper.

• Adjective:
  • IPA^(key): /əˈtɛm.pə.ɹət/

• Verb:
  • /əˈtɛm.pə.ɹeɪt/

attemperate (comparative more attemperate, superlative most attemperate)

1. (archaic) tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.
   • 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism:

     Hope must be […] attemperate to the promise.

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

1. (archaic) To attemper.

• attemperament
• attemperance
• attemperly

• “attemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

attemperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of attemperō

• “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.