单词 | untempered |
释义 | untemperedadj. 1. a. Unregulated; not moderated or controlled. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > completely unchecked unbridledc1374 untempered1377 bridleless?1406 unrepressed?a1425 untemperatea1425 savagea1450 unchecked1469 undaunted1513 uncontrolleda1535 reinless1566 unrestrained1578 ineffrenate1581 unbitteda1586 check-free1598 uncurbed1600 checkless1604 unbounded1608 uncontained?1611 dis'chained1615 ungoverneda1616 unstanched1621 unsneaped1647 incontrolled1650 controlless1657 irregulated1664 curbless1813 do-as-you-please1845 disenchaineda1849 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ix. 102 Wolde neuere þe faithful fader his fithel were vntempred. a1547 Earl of Surrey in Nugæ Antiquæ (1804) II. 359 What lyef leede testeye men, They that consume their dayes In inwarde freets, untempred hates. 1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc iii. i Your eldest sonne, misledd By traitours framde of young vntempered wittes Assembleth force against your yonger sonne. 1631 A. Wilson Swisser iii. ii I wilbee your Stickler, You too vntemper'd Vermin! 1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) I. 584 Every untempered government must be jealous. 1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 72 The spirit of party will pervade a state with..untempered and..lasting violence. b. Unmodified, unqualified. Frequently const. by. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > not mixed with or modified by unallayed1519 unmixed1526 uncommixed1598 unlarded1648 untinged1732 unimpregnated1772 untempereda1774 undashed1803 a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 275 The utmost rigour of legal justice untempered by equity. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 203 The spirit of monarchy, untempered by representation. 1847 H. Rogers Ess. (1860) I. 240 His eyes ache with that too untempered brilliance. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. x. 481 Rigid justice, untempered by mercy. 2. a. Of lime or mortar: Not properly mixed and prepared. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [adjective] > mixed > insufficiently untemperedc1440 c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 395 Vntempred lime yf with the graffes be Putte in the plages. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xiii. 11 Ye wall, that ye haue dawbed with vntempered morter. 1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. i. 7 He laboureth to plaister over his Superstition with the vntempered morter of this quidditative distinction. 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 47 That none of these untempered Mortars can hold out against the next blast of Wind. 1755 E. Young Centaur v. 311 This castle was built out of the various ruins of many demolish'd forts of infidelity,..and cemented with untemper'd mortar. 1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 44 I have not been labouring in the quarries for thirty years, that I should build with untempered mortar. 1896 A. D. Coleridge Eton in Forties 8 His gloves..[being] bedaubed..with untempered mortar. b. Not properly digested or concocted. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [adjective] > digested > undigested undefied1398 undigest1398 crude1533 raw1533 undecoct1542 undigested1598 hard1601 inconcocted1605 unconcoct1605 unconcocted1611 indigested1620 untempered1822 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 757 The untempered fluid contained in the tubercles. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 695 A defective secretion of the rete mucosum, which..seems to be..untempered or imperfectly elaborated. c. Unhardened. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > formation of bone > [adjective] > not ossified unossified1722 untempered1817 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > tempered or hardened > not unannealed1745 untempered1817 1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 427 Bones untempered in their substance, and incapable of affording their proper support. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 322 A screw of untempered steel. 1839 H. M. Noad Course Eight Lect. 239 A disc of untempered steel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1377 |
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