TEMERARIOUSLY
TEMERA'RIOUSLY, adverb Rashly; with excess of boldness.
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TEMERITY
TEMER'ITY, noun [Latin temeritas; properly a rushing forward.]1. Rashness; unreasonable contempt of danger; as the temerity of a commander in war.2. Extreme boldness.The figures...
TEMIN
TEM'IN, noun A money of account in Algiers, equivalent to 2 carubes, or 29 aspers, about 34 cents, or 17d sterling.
TEMPER
TEM'PER, verb transitive [Latin tempero, to mix or moderate]1. To mix so that one part qualifies the other; to bring to a moderate state; as, to temper justice with mercy.2. To ...
TEMPERAMENT
TEM'PERAMENT, noun [Latin temperamentum.]1. Constitution; state with respect to the predominance of any quality; as the temperament of the body.Bodies are denominated hot and co...
TEMPERAMENTAL
TEMPERAMENT'AL, adjective Constitutional. [Not much used.]
TEMPERANCE
TEM'PERANCE, noun [Latin temperantia, from tempero.]1. Moderation; particularly, habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restraine...
TEMPERATE
TEM'PERATE, adjective [Latin temperatus.] Moderate; not excessive; as temperate heat; a temperate climate; temperate air.1. Moderate in the indulgence of the appetites and passi...
TEMPERATELY
TEM'PERATELY, adverb Moderately; without excess or extravagance.1. Calmly; without violence of passion; as, to reprove one temperately2. With moderate force.Winds that temperate...
TEMPERATENESS
TEM'PERATENESS, noun Moderation; freedom from excess; as the temperateness of the weather or of a climate.1. Calmness; coolness of mind.
TEMPERATIVE
TEM'PERATIVE, adjective Having the power or quality of tempering.
TEMPERATURE
TEM'PERATURE, noun [Latin temperature]1. In physics, the state of a body with regard to heat or cold, as indicated by the thermometer; or the degree of free caloric which a body...
TEMPERED
TEM'PERED, participle passive Duly mixed or modified; reduced to a proper state; softened; allayed; hardened.1. Adjusted by musical temperament.2.adjective Disposed; as a well t...
TEMPERING
TEM'PERING, participle present tense Mixing and qualifying; qualifying by mixture; softening; mollifying; reducing to a state of moderation; hardening.
TEMPEST
TEM'PEST, noun [Latin tempestas; tempus, time, season. The primary sense of tempus, time, is a falling, or that which falls, comes or happens, from some verb which signifies to ...
TEMPEST-BEATEN
TEM'PEST-BEATEN, adjective [tempest and beat.]Beaten or shattered with storms.
TEMPEST-TOST
TEM'PEST-TOST, adjective [tempest and tost.] Tossed or driven about by tempests.
TEMPESTIVITY
TEMPESTIV'ITY, noun [Latin tempestivus.] Seasonableness. [Not in use.]
TEMPESTUOUS
TEMPEST'UOUS, adjective1. Very story; turbulent; rough with wind; as tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night.2. Blowing with violence; as a tempestuous wind.
TEMPESTUOUSLY
TEMPEST'UOUSLY, adverb With great violence of wind or great commotion; turbulently.
TEMPESTUOUSNESS
TEMPEST'UOUSNESS, noun Storminess; the state of being tempestuous or disturbed by violent winds; as the tempestuousness of the winter or of weather.
TEMPLAR
TEM'PLAR, noun [from the Temple, a house near the Thames, which originally belonged to the knights Templars. The latter took their denomination from an apartment of the palace o...
TEMPLE
TEM'PLE, noun [Latin templum.]1. A public edifice erected in honor of some deity. Among pagans, a building erected to some pretended deity, and in which the people assembled to ...
TEMPLET
TEM'PLET, noun A piece of timber in a building; as a templet under a girder.
TEMPORAL
TEM'PORAL, adjective [Latin temporalis, from tempus, time.]1. Pertaining to this life or this world or the body only; secular; as temporal concerns; temporal affairs. In this se...
TEMPORALITIES
TEMPORAL'ITIESTEM'PORALLY, adverb With respect to time or this life only.
TEMPORALLY
TEM'PORALLY, adv. With respect to time or this life only.