distemper

noun · verbB2

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noun

Plural noun:

distempers

1.
(countable, uncountable)(veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
2.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
3.
(countable, uncountable)A glue-based paint.
4.
(countable)A painting produced with this kind of paint.

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verb

V_es/s

distempers

V_ing/Gerund

distempering

V_ed/pp

distemperedno-table-tags

1.
To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
2.
To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
3.
To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
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.
4.
To intoxicate.
5.
To paint using distemper.
6.
To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
to distemper colors with size

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From fro destemprer, from la distemperare.