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distemper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distemper \Dis*tem"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distempered; p. pr. & vb. n. Distempering.] [OF. destemprer, destremper, to distemper, F. d['e]tremper to soak, soften, slake (lime); pref. des- (L. dis-) + OF. temprer, tremper, F. tremper, L. temperare to mingle in due proportion. See Temper, and cf. Destemprer.]
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To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. [Obs.]
When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered.
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To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
--Shak.The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
--Buckminster. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. ``Distempered spirits.''
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To intoxicate. [R.]
The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing.
--Massinger. (Paint.) To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size. [R.]
Distemper \Dis*tem"per\, n. [See Distemper, v. t., and cf. Destemprer.]
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An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.
--Bacon.Note: This meaning and most of the following are to be referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four ``humors'' in man. See Humor. According to the old physicians, these humors, when unduly tempered, produce a disordered state of body and mind.
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Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.
Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable.
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A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.
They heighten distempers to diseases.
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Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
Little faults proceeding on distemper.
--Shak.Some frenzy distemper had got into his head.
--Bunyan. Political disorder; tumult.
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(Paint.)
A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.
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A painting done with this preparation.
Syn: Disease; disorder; sickness; illness; malady; indisposition; ailment. See Disease.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from distemper (v.); in reference to a disease of dogs, from 1747.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context veterinary medicine pathology English) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh. 2 (context archaic English) A disorder of the humour of the body; a disease. 3 A water-based paint. vb. 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. 3 To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant. 4 To intoxicate. 5 To paint using distemper. 6 To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
WordNet
n. any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
an angry and disagreeable mood [syn: ill humor, ill humour] [ant: good humor]
paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
a painting created by distemper
a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
v. paint with distemper
Wikipedia
Distemper may refer to:
- A viral infection
- Canine distemper, a disease of dogs
- Feline distemper, a disease of cats
- Phocine distemper, a disease of seals
- A bacterial infection
- Equine distemper, or Strangles, a bacterial infection of the horse
- Derangement or disturbance of the humour or "temper", in pre-modern medicine
- Distemper (paint)
- Distemper (band), a Russian ska punk band
- Distemper (album), by The New Christs
- Remix dystemper, a remix album by Skinny Puppy
Distemper is the first non-compilation album by The New Christs. It reached #1 on the Australian Alternative Charts.
Distemper is a term with a variety of meanings for paints used in decorating and as a historical medium for painting pictures, and contrasted with tempera. The binder may be glues of vegetable or animal origin (excluding egg). Soft distemper is not abrasion resistant and may include binders such as chalk, ground pigments, and animal glue. Hard distemper is stronger and wear-resistant and can include casein or linseed oil as binders.
Distemper is a ska punk band from Moscow that was founded in 1989 and is also successful outside of Russia.
Usage examples of "distemper".
Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on--in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.
A prisoner of her thespian ambitions and his own impecunious situation, Mark felt increasingly like a bird in a gilded cage, albeit a gilded, distempered, decoupaged and beribboned cage lined with toile de Jouy.
All peculiarly modern ills, all fresh distortions and distempers, Bujak attributed to one thing: Einsteinian knowledge, knowledge of the strong force.
As to poor Jones, the only relief to his distempered mind was an unwelcome piece of news, which, as it opens a scene of different nature from those in which the reader hath lately been conversant, will be communicated to him in the next chapter.
Steve could protect him from distemper and leptospirosis and parainfluenza, but it was up to me to defend him against human beings.
The kittiwakes nested on all available upper storey window ledges along the river front, distempering walls with their droppings.
PART IV I In the boarding-house, whence the Lairds had not yet removed, the old lady who knitted, sat by the fireplace, and light from the setting sun threw her shadow on the wall, moving spidery and grey, over the yellowish distemper, in time to the tune of her needles.
Circumstances and secret Discoveries which he should be able to make to ye Duke of such passages in ye course of his life which were known to none but himselfe, would make it appeare that ye message was not ye fancy of a Distempered Brayne, but a reality, and so ye Apparition tooke his leave of him for that night and telling him that he would give him leave to consider till the next night, and then he would come to receave his answer wheather he would undertake to deliver his message or no.
Once in the terminus, with its green and buff distempered wood walls and vast arched roof held up by cast-iron supports, I made my way through the throngs, passed the station bars and bookstalls and waiting rooms which never closed, and arrived at platform three.
After cursing that they were putting his horse at risk for the distemper, which the board of health had warned was imminent after a review of stable conditions, Colby sped through small avenues and down unlit frozen pastures.
I must in candor declare, that it is very probable the contagion was conveyed, in some instances, by myself, though I took every possible care to prevent such a thing from happening, the moment that I ascertained that the distemper was infectious.
I, being a plain, blunt man, shall simply say for myself that for many days after being taken from the bilboes and made free of the deck, I was grievously distempered by reason of the waves, and so collapsed in the bowels that I could neither eat, stand, nor lie.
In some those swellings were made hard partly by the force of the distemper and partly by their being too violently drawn, and were so hard that no instrument could cut them, and then they burnt them with caustics, so that many died raving mad with the torment, and some in the very operation.
Even at this distance their faces gave off a glow of distemper, suggesting rapid changeability beneath the skin.
God has seen fit to subject chickens to the most loathsome diseases in the world—pip, gapes, costiveness, diarrhea, distemper, asthma, catarrh, apoplexy, cholera, lime legs, canker and many others.