attemperate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin attemperatus. Doublet of attemper.

Adjective

attemperate (comparative more attemperate, superlative most attemperate)

1. Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.
   • (Can we date this quote by Hammond and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Hope must be […] attemperate to the promise.

Verb

1. (archaic) To attemper.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “attemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) attemperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of attemperō

References

• “attemperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “attemperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• attemperate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.