temper
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.Examples: "[…] it is hard to say, whether [Christ’s] pain was more shamefull, or his shame more painfull unto him: the exquisiteness of his bodily temper, increasing the exquisiteness of his torment, and the ingenuity of his Soul, adding to his sensibleness of the indignities and affronts offered until him."countableobsoleteuncountable
2. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.Examples: "1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. xciv-xcv, All cane juice is liable to rapid fermentation. As soon, therefore, as the clarifier is filled, the fire is lighted, and the temper (white lime of Bristol) is stirred into it. The alkali of the lime having neutralized its superabundant acid, a part of it becomes the basis of the sugar."countablehistoricaluncountable
3. (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
2. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
3. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.Examples: "With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth."Latinismobsolete
4. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.Examples: "You fools! I and my fellows / Are ministers of fate: the elements / Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well / Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs / Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish / One dowle that's in my plume; […]"archaic
5. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.Examples: "Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system."; "1682 (first performance), Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you."; "But thy fire / Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher."archaic
6. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.Examples: "Thy sustenance […] serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary