Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being contempered; proportion; temperature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The condition of being
tempered ;proportionate mixture .
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What am I altered, whether colour be a quality emergent from the different contemperature of the elements, or whether it be only the reflection of the light upon the different situation of the parts of the body?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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