Dis-tĕm'per-a-tūre, n.
(53), n. 1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; a noxious state; as, the distemperature of the air or climate. [Obs.]
Sense 2. Commixture of contrarieties; confusion; loss of regularity; disorder.
Sense 3. Violent tumultuousness or disturbance; outrageousness. Johnson.
Sense 4. Slight illness; indisposition; distemper.
A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life. Shak.
Sense 5. Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.
Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his distemperature. W. Scott.