Webster's Dictionary 1913

1135

Tempering

Tem″per‐ing, n.(Metal.) The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degr...

1136

Tempest

Tem″pest (?), n. [OF. tempeste, F. tempête, (assumed) LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See Temporal of time.] 1. ...

1137

Tempest (2)

Tem″pest, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. tempêter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest.Part huge of bulkWallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,Tempest the ocean. Milton.

1138

Tempest (3)

Tem″pest, v. i. To storm. B. Jonson.

1139

Tempestive

Tem‐pes″tive (?), a. [L. tempestivus.] Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. Heywood. — Tem‐pes″tive‐ly, adv.

1140

Tempestivily

Tem′pes‐tiv″i‐ly (?), n. [L. tempestivitas.] The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness. Sir T. Browne.

1141

Tempestuous

Tem‐pes″tu‐ous (?), a. [L. tempestuous: cf. OF. tempestueux, F. tempêtueux.] Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, te...

1142

Templar

Tem″plar (?), n. [OE. templere, F. templier, LL. templarius. See Temple a church.] 1. One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of ...

1143

Templar (2)

Tem″plar, a. Of or pertaining to a temple.Solitary, family, and templar devotion. Coleridge.

1144

Template

Tem″plate (?), n. Same as Templet.

1145

Temple

Tem″ple (?), n. [Cf. Templet.] (Weaving) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

1146

Temple (2)

Tem″ple, n. [OF. temple, F. tempe, from L. tempora, tempus; perhaps originally, the right place, the fatal spot, supposed to be the same word as tempus, temporis, the fitting or...

1147

Temple (3)

Tem″ple, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. � a piece of land marked off, land dedicated to a god: cf. F. témple, from the Latin. Cf....

1148

Temple (4)

Tem″ple (?), v. t. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. Feltham.

1149

Temple (5)

Tem″ple, n. 1. (Mormon Ch.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.2. A local organization of Odd Fellows.

1150

Templed

Tem″pled (?), a. Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple.I love thy rocks and rills,Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.

1151

Templet

Tem″plet (?), n. [LL. templatus vaulted, from L. templum a small timber.] [Spelt also template.] 1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to...

1152

Tempo

‖Tem″po (?), n. [It., fr. L. tempus. See Tense, n.] (Mus.) The rate or degree of movement in time.‖A tempo giusto (jo͞os″tō̍), in exact time; — sometimes, directing a return to ...

1153

Temporal

Tem″po‐ral (?), a. [L. temporalis, fr. tempora the temples: cf. F. temporal. See Temple a part of the head.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal ...

1154

Temporal (2)

Tem″po‐ral (?), a. [L. temporalis, fr. tempus, temporis, time, portion of time, the fitting or appointed time: cf. F. temporel. Cf. Contemporaneous, Extempore, Temper, v. t., Te...

1155

Temporal (3)

Tem″po‐ral, n. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; — used chiefly in the plural. Dryden.He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals....

1156

Temporality

Tem′po‐ral″i‐ty (?), n.; pl.Temporalities (#). [L. temporalitas, in LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalité.] 1. The state or quality of being temporary; — opposed to...

1157

Temporally

Tem″po‐ral‐ly (?), adv. In a temporal manner; secularly. South.

1158

Temporalness

Tem″po‐ral‐ness, n. Worldliness. Cotgrave.

1159

Temporalty

Tem″po‐ral‐ty (?), n. [See Temporality.] 1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot.2. A secular possession; a temporality.

1160

Temporaneous

Tem′po‐ra″ne‐ous (?), a. [L. temporaneus happening at the right time, fr. tempus, temporis, time.] Temporarity. Hallywell.

1161

Temporarily

Tem″po‐ra‐ri‐ly (?), adv. In a temporary manner; for a time.