distemperate
adjEtymology First attested in 1398, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English distemperat(e), borrowed from Medieval Latin distemperātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + temperātus, perfect passive participle of temperō (“to temperate oneself, show restraint”).
1
Obsolete Immoderate, excessive.
- Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.
2
Obsolete, Of the weather Not temperate, of no good influence for one's confort or soundness; (figuratively) unwholesome, stormy.
Air or elements
3
Obsolete Not properly tempered; disordered through excess or deficiency of some constituent; (by extensions, of bodily or mental condition) disordered, out of order; diseased, out of health; ill-conditioned.
In the obsoleted theory of humours
- Derived terms
- distemperately