temperate
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Latin temperatus, past participle of temperare (“moderate, forbear, combine properly”). See temper.
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[edit] Adjective
temperate (comparative more temperate, superlative most temperate)
- Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shakespeare
- That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings. Alfred Tennyson.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
- Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Franklin.
- Proceeding from temperance.
- The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air. Alexander Pope.
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- See also Wikisaurus:temperate
[edit] Derived terms
- (geology) temperate zone, that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.
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moderate; not excessive heat, climate
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not marked with passion
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moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions
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[edit] Verb
temperate (third-person singular simple present temperates, present participle temperating, simple past and past participle temperated)
- (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
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- It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston.
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(obsolete) to render temperate
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[edit] References
- temperate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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temperate
- second-person plural present indicative of temperare
- second-person plural imperative of temperare
- Feminine plural of temperato
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temperāte
- first-person plural present active imperative of temperō
