attemperly

English

Etymology

From attemper +‎ -ly.

Adverb

attemperly (comparative more attemperly, superlative most attemperly)

  1. (obsolete) temperately
    • 1898, “Of ordinance of stuynge”, in Robert Steele, editor, Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, page 83:
      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.
    • 1899, William Morris, transl., The History of Over Sea, Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, page 45:
      Wherefore she did them to eat thus attemperly.

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