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- English Word Temper Definition To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
- English Word Temper Definition To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
- English Word Tempera Definition A mode or process of painting; distemper.
- English Word Temperable Definition Capable of being tempered.
- English Word Temperament Definition Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.
- English Word Temperament Definition Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions.
- English Word Temperament Definition The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected.
- English Word Temperament Definition Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
- English Word Temperament Definition A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C/ becoming identical with D/, and so on.
- English Word Temperament Definition The peculiar physical and mental character of an individual, in olden times erroneously supposed to be due to individual variation in the relations and proportions of the constituent parts of the body, especially of the fluids, as the bile, blood, lymph, etc. Hence the phrases, bilious or choleric temperament, sanguine temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of these fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament.
- English Word Temperamental Definition Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.
- English Word Temperance Definition Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
- English Word Temperance Definition Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
- English Word Temperance Definition State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
- English Word Temperancy Definition Temperance.
- English Word Temperate Definition Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
- English Word Temperate Definition Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language.
- English Word Temperate Definition Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
- English Word Temperate Definition Proceeding from temperance.
- English Word Temperate Definition To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
- English Word Temperately Definition In a temperate manner.
- English Word Temperateness Definition The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.
- English Word Temperative Definition Having power to temper.
- English Word Temperature Definition Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
- English Word Temperature Definition Freedom from passion; moderation.
- English Word Temperature Definition Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or of boiling.
- English Word Temperature Definition Mixture; compound.
- English Word Tempered Definition Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword.
- English Word Tempered Definition of Temper
- English Word Temperer Definition One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.