Attemper

//əˈtɛm.pə(ɹ)// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
  2. 2
    modify the temperature of wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    To regulate, arrange, organise. archaic

    "Thus fairely she attempered her feast, / And pleasd them all with meete satietie [...]."

Etymology

From Middle English attempren, from Old French atemprer (French attremper), from Latin attemperare. Doublet of attemperate.

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