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misˈtempered, ppl. a. Obs. or arch.
[f. mis-1 2 + tempered.]
1. Badly or unsuitably mixed.
1506Kalendar Sheph. L 3 (1892) III. 107 Whan they [sc. the humours] be vnegall & mysse tempred that one domyne ouer an other. 1594Nashe Terrors of Night Wks. (Grosart) III. 269 Our brains are like the firmament..and exhale..the like grose mistempred vapors and meteors. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, O.T. 498 Those substitutions..shall be of a mis-tempered mixture, some of them strong..others weake.
2. Disordered, deranged.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 A iv, The mystempered flesshe ought to be deuysed in two dyfferences. The fyrste is whan the subiect flesshe is out of nature in an onely qualyte. 1587Holinshed Hist. Scot. 114/1 He..vsed to sit at supper..till he were so mistempered, that being laid to sleepe, he would streight vomit out such heauie gorges, as [etc.]. 1595Shakes. John v. i. 12 This inundation of mistempred humor. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. 33 Gentleness, and tenderness, and truth And Gospel charms to tame mistempered souls.
3. Of weapons: Tempered for an evil purpose.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. i. 94 From those bloody hands Throw your mistemper'd Weapons to the ground. |