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† inˈtemperature Obs.
[a. obs. F. intempérature ‘intemperature or distemperature of the bodie, vnseasonablenesse or foulenesse of weather’ (Cotgr.), f. in- (in-3) + température.]
1. Inclemency, severity, distemperature of the air, weather, etc.; = prec. 1.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 309/1 For the great heat and intemperature of the weather. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 194 The same excesses and intemperature of the seasons. 1725N. Robinson Th. Physick 198 How the different Gravities of this Element [Air], and its several Variations, of hot, cold, dry, and moist Intemperatures, cause Diseases. 1753Johnson in Adventurer No. 115 ⁋8 Whether we owe it to the influences of the constellations, or the intemperature of seasons. 1815tr. Duc de Levis' Eng. 19th Cent. I. 19 The most delicate women are seen exposing themselves to the intemperature of a humid atmosphere. 1820Sporting Mag. VI. 159 These were not the only extra⁓ordinary effects of the late intemperature.
2. Abnormal or distempered condition of the body; intemperament.
1559Morwyng Evonymus 154 It amendeth the cold intemperature of the cheaste. 1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. ii. v. 229 He would have hindred the intemperature of the humors. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Head-ache, There is an Head-Ach, which proceeds from the Intemperature of the Brain, which Intemperature being cold and moist, predominates therein. 1799Corry Sat. Lond. (1803) 38 Plato..observes, that the moral intemperature of cities and the corruption of manners, originate in the bad example of others to youth.
3. Intemperateness of action or passion; = intemperance 2.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx. (1612) 156 Our owne intemprature doth worke in vs our owne vnrest. |