† untemperatenessn.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. ii Þe temporat place bringeþ oute of vntemporatenes and makeþ it gode to ete.

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Civ, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Some dysease of the lyuer, or the weykenes of the party greued, the which is none other thynge but a clere and notable vntemperatnes.

1580 T. Blundeville Foure Offices Horsemanship (rev. ed.) iv. 36 b To learne at the Physicians handes, which.. as touching the weakenesse of the Liuer, proceeding of the vntemperatenesse thereof, will bid you to heale euerie such vntemperatenesse by his contrarie.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 35 b/1 The glowinge Cautery..amendeth the vntemperatnes of that parte.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. v. iii. 225 An innate burning vntemperatnesse, turning blood and choler into melancholy.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. x. sig. P.vii^v/2 A dwelling place conueniently situated against the vntemperatenesse of the ayre.

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iii. f. 26^v The vntemperatenes of Winter, and Sommer.

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 723 The work..being hindred by no untemperatenesse of the weather.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 405 Many of his men,..by the untemperateness of the Air,..dyed.

1739 Gen. Chirurg. Dict. at Intemperies, in J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. An Unseasonableness or Untemperateness.

1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 213 By reason of vntemperatnesse they doe degenerate from their nature.

1599 R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. To Students Vntemperatenes, Vnshamefastnes, Vnfaithfulnes, and Vnthankefulnes.

1637 W. Saltonstall tr. Eusebius Life Constantine 137 Untemperatenesse of life, covetousnesse, murder.