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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.

verb

Temperate v. t. To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper. (Obs.) "It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath."

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Etymology of 'Temperate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Temperate" Quotes from Famous Books

... from dunning creditors. These missives, however, never troubled him, for he never broke the envelopes of one of them, but handed all his correspondence over to his wife to do as she pleased with and answer such letters as she thought necessary. He was very temperate. Whether he smoked as a young man, I am not aware; but he never smoked at the periodical evening gatherings at his house, when the guests could hardly see each other for the clouds of tobacco-smoke. On these occasions the most abstruse subjects were often ...

— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... Black Death. Little was heard of the disease in the nineteenth century, although its existence in Asia was known. In 1894 it appeared in Hong Kong, extended to Canton, thence to India, Japan, San Francisco, Mexico, and, in fact, few parts of the tropics or temperate regions of the earth have been free from it. Mortality has varied greatly, being greatest in China and in India; in the last the estimate since 1900 is seven million five hundred thousand deaths. The disease is caused by a small bacillus ...

— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman

... 'For indeed,' said she, 'what with all these clocks and chemicals, without a drop of the creature life would be impossible entirely. And you seen yourself that even M'Guire was glad to beg for it. And even himself, when he is downhearted with all these cruel disappointments, though as temperate a man as any child, will be sometimes crying for a glass of it. And I'll thank you for a thimbleful to settle what I got.' Soon after, she began with tears to narrate the deathbed dispositions and lament ...

— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson

... regions can be wholly accounted for by climatal and other physical conditions. Of late, almost every author who has studied the subject has come to this conclusion. The case of America alone would almost suffice to prove its truth; for if we exclude the arctic and northern temperate parts, all authors agree that one of the most fundamental divisions in geographical distribution is that between the New and Old Worlds; yet if we travel over the vast American continent, from the central parts of the United States to its extreme southern ...

— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

... and difficult to manage in respect to quantity, are liable to shorten the span of human life, sooner rendering the system incapable of being stimulated into action by the nutrientia. See Sect XXXVII. 4. On the same account life is shorter in warmer climates than in more temperate ones. ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

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