Des-tĕm'per or Dis-tĕm'per, n.

noun

n. [Fr. détrempe, from dé, for des, equiv. to Lat. dis, and tremper, to dip, soak, for temper, from Lat. temperare, to temper.] (Paint.) A peculiar sort of painting with opaque colors, ground and diluted with water, glue, &c. Elmes.

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Dis-tēm'per, n.p. 394nounAn undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Bacon. 2. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. [Obs.] Countries under the tropic of a distemper…
Dis-tēm'per, v. t.p. 394verbtransitiveTo derange the functions of, whether bodily or mental; to disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster. 2.…