Tempered

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a specified disposition or temper. in-compounds, not-comparable

    "even-tempered"

  2. 2
    Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals. not-comparable

    ""Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming — "Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life!""

  3. 3
    Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass. not-comparable
  4. 4
    Moderated or balanced by other considerations. not-comparable

    "The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection."

  5. 5
    Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element wordnet
  2. 2
    made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of temper form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tempred, itempered, ytempred, ytemprid, from Old English ġetemprod (“tempered, moderate, goverened, cured”), past participle of Old English ġetemprian (“to temper, moderate, govern, cure”), equivalent to temper + -ed.

Etymology 2

Partly from Middle English temperd, temprede, from Old English temprode, first and third person singular preterit of Old English temprian; and partly from Middle English tempred, i-tempred, from Old English ġetemprod. Equivalent to temper + -ed.

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