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/tˈɛmprət zoʊn/ Listen

adjective

Temperate adj.

Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.

Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. "She is not hot, but temperate as the morn." "That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings."

Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking. "Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy."

Proceeding from temperance. (R.) "The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air."

Temperate zone (Geog.), that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.

Synonyms: Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.

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"Temperate zone" Quotes from Famous Books

... but a species usually found in the mountainous regions of the temperate zone, to which Herbert gave ...

— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne

... consultation with his neighbors or any one else. Each season has its own particular games for the young folks, and they take to them without any suggestion from outsiders, just as young ducks take to water, without any instructions from the mother bird. The seasons in the south temperate zone are just the opposite to those in the north. Some years ago I spent the months of July and August in New Zealand, and great was my surprise to find the boys down at Dunedin snowballing on the Fourth of July, while the sleigh-bells made music through the streets. In the following ...

— Healthful Sports for Boys • Alfred Rochefort

... world social development has been hindered by external circumstances of another character, such as the want of wood, the scarcity of animals, the absence of edible fruits. In fact, it is only within a comparatively temperate zone that human society has been able permanently to assume highly complex forms and to build itself up on an extensive scale. In this zone, climate, while favouring man up to a certain point, has at the same time compelled him to eat bread in the sweat of his brow. It has compelled him ...

— Crime and Its Causes • William Douglas Morrison

... plains of the Pampas, extending from about 20 degrees south latitude for a distance of fully two thousand miles into Patagonia, and averaging in width five hundred miles. Stretching, as do these plains, across a large portion of the South Temperate Zone, they present great varieties of climate. The northern portion is watered by the River La Plata and its tributaries. To the south of Buenos Ayres the rivers are fewer and of less extent. The north-western Pampas consist of slightly undulating and dry plains, though interspersed ...

— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston

... half a mile, or even a mile, down into the Canyon, during a part of the winter, are sometimes covered with light snow. As soon as the snow line is passed, the climate begins to change. The cold is less penetrating, and by and by one enters what might be called a temperate zone. Warmer and more comfortable it becomes, until, on reaching the river, the word "delicious" alone conveys the rich sense of satisfaction that one feels all over the body in the delightful sensation experienced. No time is so agreeable for a long stay in the depths of the Canyon as in ...

— The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It, • George Wharton James

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