contemperate
English
Etymology
See contemper.
Verb
contemperate (third-person singular simple present contemperates, present participle contemperating, simple past and past participle contemperated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To temper; to moderate.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- Moisten and contemperate the air.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
contemperate
- inflection of contemperare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
contemperate f pl
- feminine plural of contemperato
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Latin
Verb
contemperāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of contemperō