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.