Word Meanings - ATTEMPERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of attempering or regulating. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• ATTEMPER
  1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice
• ATTEMPERATION
  The act of attempering or regulating. Bacon.
• ATTEMPERAMENT
  A tempering, or mixing in due proportion.
• REGULATE
  1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their
• ATTEMPERLY
  Temperately. Chaucer.
• ATTEMPERANCE
  Temperance; attemperament. Chaucer.
• ATTEMPERATE
  Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted. Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise. Hammond.
• REGULATION
  1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. The temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay. 2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law;
• REGULATIVE
  Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton. Note: These terms are borrowed from Kant, and
• ATTEMPERMENT
  Attemperament.
• REGULATOR
  A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as: The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations of the balance. The governor of a steam engine. A valve
• SELF-REGULATED
  Regulated by one's self or by itself.
• THERMOREGULATOR
  A device for the automatic regulation of temperature; a thermostat.
• SELF-REGULATIVE
  Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself. Whewell.
• MISREGULATE
  To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.
• IRREGULATE
  To make irregular; to disorder. Sir T. Browne.