Attemper
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
- 2 modify the temperature of wordnet
- 3 To mitigate, assuage.
"But we must add, that she did say, by way of attempering her pleasure: "Well! I must say I never saw a finer young man in my life—indeed I don’t know that the court of Great Britain quite boasts his equal..."
- 4 To regulate, arrange, organise. archaic
"Thus fairely she attempered her feast, / And pleasd them all with meete satietie [...]."
Example
More examples"But we must add, that she did say, by way of attempering her pleasure: "Well! I must say I never saw a finer young man in my life—indeed I don’t know that the court of Great Britain quite boasts his equal..."
Etymology
From Middle English attempren, from Old French atemprer (French attremper), from Latin attemperare. Doublet of attemperate.
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