Dictionary entry

Distemperature

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐tem″per‐a‐ture (?; 135), n. 1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air.

2. Disorder; confusion. Shak.

3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper.

A huge infectious troop

Of pale distemperatures and foes to life. Shak.

4. Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.

Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his distemperature. Sir W. Scott.