intemperature

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English

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Etymology

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Compare Old French intemperature.

Noun

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intemperature (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) intemperateness
    • 1686, Robert Boyle, The Notion of Specific Remedies Prov'd agreeable to Mechanical Philosophy:
      intemperature of the weather

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 intemperature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)