Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableintemperateness; severity, excess or inclemency
intemperature of the weather
1686, Robert Boyle, The Notion of Specific Remedies Prov'd agreeable to Mechanical Philosophy - obsoleteuncountablemedicineAn imbalance of the four bodily humours (the cardinal fluids believed to control health and mood)
But if there be some strong intemperature (whiche is wont to bringe weakenes to the affected part) and be ioyned to the Ulcered fleshe, then, that is first to be cured. And when thou hast cured the intemperature, afterwarde thou shalt easely heale the affecte.
1575, John Banister, A needefull, new, and necessarie treatise of chyrurgerie, London: Thomas Marshe, page 16
Origin
- Old Frenchintemperature
- Englishintemperature
Compare Old French intemperature.
More words from Old French
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
intemperature. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intemperature
“intemperature.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intemperature. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intemperature,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intemperature.
Source: intemperature on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.