attemperly

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adverb

temperately

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbattemperly (comparative more attemperly, superlative most attemperly)

comparative more attemperly · superlative most attemperly

  1. obsoletetemperately

    Wherefore she did them to eat thus attemperly.

    1899, William Morris, transl., The History of Over Sea, Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, page 45
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    Notheles he shall sytte thareyn, to his body be moyst of the bathe, and water be cast on hym ofte sithes attemperly, and all so sone as he wille.

    1898, “Of ordinance of stuynge”, in Robert Steele, editor, Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, page 83

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