distemper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
Etymology: From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare.
Inflected forms:
form: distempers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: distempers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: distempering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: distempered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: distempered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: distemper
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: distemper
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: distempered
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: distemper
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: distemperest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: distempered
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: distemperedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: distempers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: distempereth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: distempered
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: distemper
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: distempered
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: distemper
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: distempered
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: distemper
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: distempering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: distempered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: […] and is the onlie laſt remedie for all debilities which haue long vexed the body through a hote diſtemper of the Lever, ſuch as a hote Gutte; it allayeth all Inflamations inward & outward.
O perplex'd diſcompoſition, O ridling diſtemper, O miſerable condition of Man.
[M]y spirits began to sink under the Burden of a strong Distemper, and Nature was exhausted with the Violence of the Fever […]
gloss: A glue-based paint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A painting produced with this kind of paint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
pos: verb
gloss: To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
pos: verb
examples: Guildenstern. The King, sir—
Hamlet. Ay, sir, what of him?
Guildenstern. Is in his retirement, marvellous distemper’d.
Hamlet. With drink, sir?
Guildenstern. No, my lord; rather with choler.
The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
To some extent the Nore Mutiny may be regarded as analogous to the distempering irruption of contagious fever in a frame constitutionally sound, and which anon throws it off.
gloss: To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
pos: verb
examples: 1799-1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Piccolomini by Friedrich Schiller, Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1902, p. 37,
I have been long accustomed to defend you,
To heal and pacify distempered spirits.
gloss: To intoxicate.
pos: verb
examples: For the Courtiers reeling,
And the Duke himselfe, (I dare not say distemperd,
But kind, and in his tottering chaire carousing)
They doe the countrie service.
gloss: To paint using distemper.
pos: verb
examples: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
We cleaned out the cellars, fixed the shelves, distempered the walls, polished the woodwork, whitewashed the ceiling, stained the floor;
gloss: To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
pos: verb
examples: to distemper colors with size
Derived words: canine distemper
canine distemper virus
feline distemper
sleepy distemper
throat distemper
distemperer
distemperment
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