Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of attemper
comparative more attempered · superlative most attempered
- Modified by admixture; well blended.
- Of a moderate temperature; mild.
Attemper'd Suns arise, / Sweet-beam'd […].
a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC - Having a moderate temperament; sober.
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