distempered ppl adjective¹. [dɪ'stɛmpǝd] LME.
[from DISTEMPER verb¹ + -ED¹, perh. immed. after Old French destempré immoderate, deranged, or late Latin distemperatus DISTEMPERATE.]
1. Diseased; affected by a mental or physical disorder; now esp. (of feelings, ideas, etc.), disordered, disturbed. LME.
■ Shakespeare Sonnets I, sick withal..thither hied, a sad distemper'd guest, But found no cure.
■ Swift His books, which his distempered imagination represented to him as alive.

2. = DISTEMPERATE 1. L15-E17.

3. (Of the bodily humours) = DISTEMPERATE 2; disturbed in temper or feelings; ill-humoured, troubled, vexed. L16-M18.

4. = DISTEMPERATE 3. L16-M17.
■ W. Laud He must answer for his own distempered language.

5. Disordered, spoiled, out of joint. E17.
■ E. Reynolds The..difficulties under which this distempered Kingdom is now groaning.

■ distemperedly adverb M17.

■ distemperedness noun M17.

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distempered ppl adjective². [dɪ'stɛmpǝd] E17.
[from DISTEMPER verb² + -ED¹.]
1. Diluted; weakened by dilution. E17-M18.

2. Painted in or with distemper. L18.

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