attemperly
English
Etymology
Adverb
attemperly (comparative more attemperly, superlative most attemperly)
- (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.
Related terms
References
- “attemperly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.