contemper

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate or soften. obsolete,transitive
    — Though earth hath engroſſed the name yet water hath proved the ſmarteſt grave; which in forty dayes ſwallowed almoſt mankinde, and the living creation ; Fiſhes not wholly eſcaping, except the Salt Ocean were handſomely contempered by a mixture of the freſh Element.

词形变化

contempers present,singular,third-person contempering participle,present contempered participle,past contempered past

词源

Borrowed from Latin contemperō, from con- + temperō (“to temper”). Compare contemperate.
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