contemper

1. (obsolete, transitive) To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate or soften.Examples: "Though earth hath engroſſed the name yet water hath proved the ſmarteſt grave; which in forty dayes ſwallowed almoſt mankinde, and the living creation ; Fiſhes not wholly eſcaping, except the Salt Ocean were handſomely contempered by a mixture of the freſh Element."; "The antidotes […] have at leaſt allayed its bitterneſs, and contempered its malignity."obsoletetransitive