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单词 distemperature
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distemperaturen.

/dɪsˈtɛmpərətjʊə/
Etymology: < medieval Latin type *distemperātūra (= Old French destempreure ): compare distemperate adj. and temperature n.
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).
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