intemperate
verbEtymology From in- + temperate.
1
Obsolete To put into disorder.
intemperate
adjEtymology From in- + temperate.
1
Lacking moderation, temper or control.
- intemperate language
- intemperate zeal
1 more example
- Constantine engaged himself, by a solemn promise, to deliver Italy from the Goths; advanced as far as the banks of the Po; and after alarming, rather than assisting, his pusillanimous ally, hastily returned to the palace of Arles, to celebrate, with intemperate luxury, his vain and ostentatious triumph.1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXXI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
2
Indulging any appetite or passion to excess, especially the drinking of alcohol.
- Derived terms
- intemperateness
- Related terms
- intemperance