intemperant

comparative more intemperant · superlative most intemperant

1. obsoleteintemperate

   In particular, supporters of nativist policies decried the tendency to permit intemperant (or any other) newcomers to vote in American elections.

   1981, United States. Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, U.S. Immigration Policy and the National Interest, page 72

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   I know in Monterey, from my own experience, the court places the question before the alleged intemperant person and asks them if they want to go to a hospital.

   1956, California. Legislature. Senate. Interim Committee on the Treatment of Mental Illness, Partial Report - Volumes 3-6, page 86

   Having positioned this deficiency within this illustration and bearing in mind that the intemperant person is an individual who cannot either control or regulate his passionate appetites, it is easily found among all people whether educated or not.

   1991, Carlos Bernardo González Pecotche, Deficiencies and Propensities of the Human Being, page 95