Word Meanings - INTEMPERANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Intemperate. Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.

INTEMPERANT
Intemperate. Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.
INTEMPERATENESS
1. The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking. 2. Severity of weather; inclemency. Boyle. By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors. Sir M.
INTEMPERATELY
In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint. The people . . . who behaved very unwisely and intemperately on that occasion. Burke.
NAUGHTY
1. Having little or nothing. that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman. 2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. The other basket had very naughty figs. Jer. xxiv. 2. 3. hence, corrupt; wicked. So shines a good deed
THEIR
The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
INTEMPERATE
1. Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion. 2. Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors. 3. Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate
FEUDALLY
In a feudal manner.