Word Meanings - UNTEMPERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Intemperate.

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.
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