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Attemperate   Listen
adjective
Attemperate  adj.  Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted. "Hope must be... attemperate to the promise."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Attemperate" Quotes from Famous Books



... men and women of other nature than they be here in this country. For I wot well, of whatsoever condition women be in Greece, the women of this country be right good, wise, pleasant, humble, discreet, sober, chaste, obedient to their husbands, true, secret, steadfast, ever busy, and never idle, attemperate in speaking, and virtuous in all their works—or at least should be so. For which causes so evident my said Lord, as I suppose, thought it was not of necessity to set in his book the sayings of his ...
— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot



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