英语词汇“distemper”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

distemper

释义

a viral disease of certain animals, esp a highly infectious disease of dogs, with fever and coughing and sometimes disturbance of the nervous systems

archaic an illness

My distemper was a pleurisy — Benjamin Franklin

a social or political evil

[archaic distemper to upset, derange, from late Latin distemperare to temper or mix badly, from Latin dis- + temperare to temper, mingle]

a method of painting in which pigments are mixed with white or yolk of egg or size, esp for mural decoration

the paint used in the distemper process

any of numerous water-based paints for general, esp household, use

to paint (something) in or with distemper

[Middle English distemperen to mix with liquid, soak, via Old French from Latin dis- + temperare, to temper, mingle]

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