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DISTEMPER, n. [dis and temper.]

1. Literally, an undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Hence,

2. Disease; malady; indisposition; any morbid state of an animal body, or of any part of it; a state in which the animal economy is deranged or imperfectly carried on. [See Disease.] It is used of the slighter disease, but not exclusively. In general, it is synonymous with disease, and is particularly applied to the diseases of brutes.

3. Want of due temperature, applied to climate; the literal sense of the word, but not now used.

Countries under the tropic of a distemper uninhabitable.

4. Bad constitution of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite.

5. Want of due balance of parts or opposite qualities and principles; as, the temper and distemper of an empire consist of contraries. [Not now used.]

6. Ill humor of mind; depravity of inclination. [Not used.]

7. Political disorder; tumult.

8. Uneasiness; ill humor or bad temper.

There is a sickness, which puts some of us in distemper.

9. In painting, the mixing of colors with something besides oil and water. When colors are mixed with size, whites of eggs, or other unctuous or glutinous matter, and not with oil, it is said to be done in distemper.

DISTEMPER, v.t.

1. To disease; to disorder; to derange the functions of the body or mind.

2. To disturb; to ruffle.

3. To deprive of temper or moderation.

4. To make disaffected, ill humored or malignant. This verb is seldom used, except in the participles.


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DISTEMPER, n. [dis and temper.]

1. Literally, an undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Hence,

2. Disease; malady; indisposition; any morbid state of an animal body, or of any part of it; a state in which the animal economy is deranged or imperfectly carried on. [See Disease.] It is used of the slighter disease, but not exclusively. In general, it is synonymous with disease, and is particularly applied to the diseases of brutes.

3. Want of due temperature, applied to climate; the literal sense of the word, but not now used.

Countries under the tropic of a distemper uninhabitable.

4. Bad constitution of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite.

5. Want of due balance of parts or opposite qualities and principles; as, the temper and distemper of an empire consist of contraries. [Not now used.]

6. Ill humor of mind; depravity of inclination. [Not used.]

7. Political disorder; tumult.

8. Uneasiness; ill humor or bad temper.

There is a sickness, which puts some of us in distemper.

9. In painting, the mixing of colors with something besides oil and water. When colors are mixed with size, whites of eggs, or other unctuous or glutinous matter, and not with oil, it is said to be done in distemper.

DISTEMPER, v.t.

1. To disease; to disorder; to derange the functions of the body or mind.

2. To disturb; to ruffle.

3. To deprive of temper or moderation.

4. To make disaffected, ill humored or malignant. This verb is seldom used, except in the participles.

DIS-TEM'PER, n. [dis and temper.]

  1. Literally, an undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Hence,
  2. Disease; malady; indisposition; any morbid state of an animal body, or of any part of it; a state in which the animal economy is deranged or imperfectly carried on. [See Disease.] It is used of the slighter diseases, but not exclusively. In general, it is synonymous with disease, and is particularly applied to the diseases of brutes.
  3. Want of due temperature, applied to climate; the literal sense of the word, but not now used. Countries under the tropic of a distemper uninhabitable. – Ralegh.
  4. Bad constitution of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite. – Shak.
  5. Want of due balance of parts or opposite qualities and principles; as, the temper and distemper of an empire consist of contraries. [Not now used.] – Bacon.
  6. Ill humor of mind; depravity of inclination. [Not used.] – King Charles.
  7. Political disorder; tumult. – Waller.
  8. Uneasiness; ill humor or bad temper. There is a sickness, / Which puts some of us in distemper. – Shak.
  9. In painting, the mixing of colors with something besides oil and water. When colors are mixed with size, whites of eggs, or other unctuous or glutinous matter, and not with oil, it is said to be done in distemper.

DIS-TEM'PER, v.t.

  1. To disease; to disorder; to derange the functions of the body or mind. – Shak. Boyle.
  2. To disturb; to ruffle. – Dryden.
  3. To deprive of temper or moderation. – Dryden.
  4. To make disaffected, ill humored, or malignant. – Shak. [This verb is seldom used, except in the participles.]

Dis*tem"per
  1. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

    [Obs.]

    When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered. Chaucer.

  2. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.

    Bacon.

    * This meaning and most of the following are to be referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four "humors" in man. See Humor. According to the old physicians, these humors, when unduly tempered, produce a disordered state of body and mind.

  3. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.

    Shak.

    The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.

  4. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.

    [Obs.]

    Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable. Sir W. Raleigh.

  5. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.

    "Distempered spirits." Coleridge.
  6. A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.

    They heighten distempers to diseases. Suckling.

  7. To intoxicate.

    [R.]

    The courtiers reeling,
    And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered,
    But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing.     Massinger.

  8. Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.

    [Obs.]

    Little faults proceeding on distemper. Shak.

    Some frenzy distemper had got into his head. Bunyan.

  9. To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.

    [R.]
  10. Political disorder; tumult.

    Waller.
  11. A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.

    (b)
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Distemper

DISTEMPER, noun [dis and temper.]

1. Literally, an undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Hence,

2. Disease; malady; indisposition; any morbid state of an animal body, or of any part of it; a state in which the animal economy is deranged or imperfectly carried on. [See Disease.] It is used of the slighter disease, but not exclusively. In general, it is synonymous with disease, and is particularly applied to the diseases of brutes.

3. Want of due temperature, applied to climate; the literal sense of the word, but not now used.

Countries under the tropic of a distemper uninhabitable.

4. Bad constitution of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite.

5. Want of due balance of parts or opposite qualities and principles; as, the temper and distemper of an empire consist of contraries. [Not now used.]

6. Ill humor of mind; depravity of inclination. [Not used.]

7. Political disorder; tumult.

8. Uneasiness; ill humor or bad temper.

There is a sickness, which puts some of us in distemper

9. In painting, the mixing of colors with something besides oil and water. When colors are mixed with size, whites of eggs, or other unctuous or glutinous matter, and not with oil, it is said to be done in distemper

DISTEMPER, verb transitive

1. To disease; to disorder; to derange the functions of the body or mind.

2. To disturb; to ruffle.

3. To deprive of temper or moderation.

4. To make disaffected, ill humored or malignant. This verb is seldom used, except in the participles.

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