单词 | distemperature |
释义 | distemperaturen. Now rare and archaic. Distemperate or distempered condition. 1. A condition of the air or elements not properly tempered for human health and comfort; evil, deranged, or extreme ‘temperature’ (in the earlier sense of this word, including all atmospheric states); inclemency, unwholesomeness. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > condition of reighnessOE distemperancec1374 distemperurea1387 sternnessa1387 intemperance?a1475 distemperature1531 intemperancy1540 roughness1545 crabbedness1546 intemperateness1555 inclemency1559 intemperature1570 untemperateness1577 foulness1581 distemperment1582 distemper1614 unkindliness1625 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxv. sig. hvv The temperature or distemperature of the regions. 1584 G. Peele Araygnem. Paris v. i. sig. Eiij Woods Where neither storme nor Suns distemperature Haue power to hurte by cruell heate or colde. 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 73 Surely, their clothing is excellent good against the Distemperatures of the wether. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 43 This distemperature by storms of Wind and Rain turns Summer into Winter. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ix. 214 The same distemperature of the Air that occasioned the Plague, occasioned also the infertility or noxiousness of the Soil. 1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey v. 49 Henceforth..exposed to the sharp and wintry blasts and all those distemperatures of the air. 2. Disordered or distempered condition of the ‘humours’, or of the body; disorder, ailment. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] unhealc700 untrumnessc897 adleeOE sicknessc967 cothec1000 unhealthc1000 woe?a1200 ail?c1225 lying?c1225 maladyc1275 unsoundc1275 feebless1297 languora1375 languishc1384 disease1393 aegritudea1400 lamea1400 maleasea1400 soughta1400 wilc1400 malefaction?a1425 firmityc1426 unwholesomenessc1449 ill1450 languenta1500 distemperancea1535 the valley of the shadow of death1535 affect?1537 affection?1541 distemperature1541 inability1547 sickliness1565 languishment1576 cause1578 unhealthfulness1589 crazedness1593 languorment1593 evilness1599 strickenness1599 craziness1602 distemper1604 unsoundness1605 invaletude1623 unhealthiness1634 achaque1647 unwellness1653 disailment1657 insalubrity1668 faintiness1683 queerness1687 invalidity1690 illness1692 ill health1698 ailment1708 illing1719 invalescence1724 peakingness1727 sickishness1727 valetudinariness1742 ailingness1776 brash1786 invalidism1794 poorliness1814 diseasement1826 invalidship1830 valetudinarianism1839 ailing1862 invalidhood1863 megrims1870 pourriture1890 immersement1903 bug1918 condition1920 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) i. ii. 3 To knowe the distemperature these sygnes folowyng wold be consydered. 1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes i. i. 1 Sicknesse or infirmitie is no other thyng then a distemperature of humours in the bodies of Creatures. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 83 At her heeles a huge infectious troope Of pale distemperatures . View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. v. iii. 225 This adventitious melancholy..is caused of an hote and dry distemperature. a1695 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. IV (1699) V. iv. 458 A Distemperature of the Brain, and Blood, and Spirits. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Suckers are another Distemperature of trees arising from the tree itself. 1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis II. 14 The effects of watching and the distemperature of an over-laboured brain. 3. Disturbance of mind or temper. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] melancholya1393 morosity1534 distemperature1571 distemperance1574 diverseness1574 sullennessa1586 spleen1596 distemper1604 mustinessa1625 canker?1635 distemperedness1649 moroseness1653 tetricalness1653 moodiness1694 dishumour1712 ill humour1748 sulkiness1760 stuff1787 funk1808 sumphishness1830 spleenishness1847 moodishness1857 grouchiness1925 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. To Rdr. sig. **.ij I wote not what distemperature had kindled up a sorte of leawd loyterers ageinst mee. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 40 Thou art vprows'd by some distemperature . View more context for this quotation 1633 S. Marmion Fine Compan. iv. vi Spr. I hear she is run mad. Aur. Is, and the cause of her distemperature Is the reproach you put upon her honour. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. 548 What I uttered through the distemperature of my passion. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. xiv. 334 Durward..found the latter in a state of choleric distemperature. 1850 R. Browning Easter Day xxxiii. 8 A mere dream and distemperature. 4. transferred and figurative. Derangement, disturbance, disorder (of society, the state, etc.). archaic or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > political unrest > [noun] stirringa1154 motiona1387 troublec1435 misrule1442 commotion1471 stir1487 misgovernment1565 welteringa1586 confusions1599 distemper1605 distemperature?1606 convulsion1643 unsettlement1649 upturning1846 upturn1864 the natives are restless1950 ?1606 M. Drayton Eglog viii, in Poemes sig. G Since the worlds distemperature is such. 1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 154 The distemprature of the time was such, as no sword could cure it. 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 147 A curious clocke; which by the distemperature of one wheele, growes distempered in every one. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. iii. 321 In the present Distemperatures..Partys are no good Registers of the Actions of the adverse side. 5. Immoderateness, excess (esp. of heat or cold; cf. 1); excess in drinking or other indulgence, intemperateness, intemperance. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] unhovea1300 passingc1350 distemperancec1374 excess1393 unmeasurea1400 surfeita1500 excessivenessa1513 ametry?1541 immoderation?1541 distemperature1572 exceedingnessa1586 grossness1585 unreasonableness1606 inordinacya1617 excrescency1638 immoderancy1646 fair share1650 overbalance1651 hyperbole1652 overheight1664 immoderacya1682 faggald1824 1572 J. Jones Benefit Bathes of Buckstones f. 3v Nothing..better..Taketh away distemperature of heate..then a dulce or pleasunt Bathe. 1605 Bloudy Bk. C It shamed him not (after his distemperatures abroade) to bring queanes home with him. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 195 Princes..following ill counsell and youthfull distemperature. 1875 J. R. Lowell Under Old Elm in Poems (1890) IV. 82 The track it left seems less of fire than light, Cold but to such as love distemperature. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1531 |
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