attemperly

English

Etymology

From attemper +‎ -ly.

Adverb

attemperly (comparative more attemperly, superlative most attemperly)

  1. (obsolete) temperately
    • 1898, “Of ordinance of stuynge”, in Robert Steele, editor, Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, page 83:
      Notheles he shall sytte thareyn, to his body be moyst of the bathe, and water be cast on hym ofte sithes attemperly, and all so sone as he wille.
    • 1899, William Morris, transl., The History of Over Sea, Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, page 45:
      Wherefore she did them to eat thus attemperly.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “attemperly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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