Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To moderate; qualify; temper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften.
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- verb obsolete, transitive To
modify ortemper ; toallay ; toqualify ; tomoderate orsoften .
Etymologies
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Latin contemperare, contemperatum; con- + temperare to temper. Compare contemperate.
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