distemper

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɪsˈtɛmpə(ɹ)/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh. countable,uncountable
  2. A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — […] and is the onlie laſt remedie for all debilities which haue long vexed the body through a hote diſtemper of the Lever, ſuch as a hote Gutte; it allayeth all Inflamations inward & outward.
  3. A glue-based paint. countable,uncountable
  4. A painting produced with this kind of paint. countable
动词 v.
  1. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
  2. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
    — Guildenstern. The King, sir— Hamlet. Ay, sir, what of him? Guildenstern. Is in his retirement, marvellous distemper’d. Hamlet. With drink, sir? Guildenstern. No, my lord; rather with choler.
  3. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
    — 1799-1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Piccolomini by Friedrich Schiller, Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1902, p. 37, I have been long accustomed to defend you, To heal and pacify distempered spirits.
  4. To intoxicate.
    — For the Courtiers reeling, And the Duke himselfe, (I dare not say distemperd, But kind, and in his tottering chaire carousing) They doe the countrie service.
  5. To paint using distemper.
    — He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
  6. To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
    — to distemper colors with size

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
canine distemper canine distemper virus feline distemper sleepy distemper throat distemper distemperer distemperment

词源

词源 1
From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare.
词源 2
From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare.
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