Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Intemperately.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Intemperately.
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- adverb Obsolete form of
intemperately .
Etymologies
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untemperate + -ly
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Examples
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And so Andronides, a clear man of wit and of wisdom, wrote to the great Alexander, to restrain wine kind in drinking, and said in this manner: -- "King, have mind that thou drinkest blood of the earth, for wine drinking untemperately is to mankind heavy and venomous."
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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