Word Meanings - DISTEMPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To mix in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size. (more info) détremper to soak, soften, slake ; pref. des- + OF. temprer, tremper, F. tremper, L. temperare to mingle in due 1. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate;

Additional info about word: DISTEMPER

To mix in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size. (more info) détremper to soak, soften, slake ; pref. des- + OF. temprer, tremper, F. tremper, L. temperare to mingle in due 1. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered. Chaucer. 2. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster. 3. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. "Distempered spirits." Coleridge. 4. To intoxicate. The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. Massinger.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISTEMPER)

• Disease
• Complaint
• disorder
• illness
• indisposition
• distemper
• ailment
• malady
• sickness
• Impostor
• Cheat
• deceiver
• charlatan
• knave
• Disorder
• disease
• complaint

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISTEMPER)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to DISTEMPER)

• CHARLATANISM
  Charlatanry.
• CHARLATANIC; CHARLATANICAL
  Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish. -- Char`la*tan"ic*al*ly, adv.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• AILMENT
  Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.
• KNAVESS
  A knavish woman. Carlyle.
• ILLNESS
  1. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness. "The illness of the weather." Locke. 2. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness. 3. Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.
• DISTEMPERATURE
  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• DISTEMPERANCE
  Distemperature.
• CHARLATAN
  One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank. (more info) to chartter, prate; of imitative origin; cf. It. zirlare to whistle
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• INDISPOSITION
  1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. 2. A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• ASSAILMENT
  The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
• SHRILLNESS
  The quality or state of being shrill.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• WAILMENT
  Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
• LOVE-SICKNESS
  The state of being love-sick.
• WEIL'S DISEASE
  An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.