contemperate

See contemper.

contemperate (third-person singular simple present contemperates, present participle contemperating, simple past and past participle contemperated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To temper; to moderate.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     Moisten and contemperate the air.

   • 1652, E. Sparke, Scintillula Altaris:

     Saint Peter […] after some experience of humane Frailty, becometh […] A Rock of Christianity; both as it were, Contemperating the gladness and sadness of each other.

   • 1656, R. Sanderson, 20 Sermons:

     Either part being ready for charity sake to contemperate and accommodate themselves to other.

   • 1705, F. Fuller, Medicina Gymnastica:

     To contemperate the Acrimony of the Blood.

• contemperation

• “contemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• OED
• OED

• compenetrate

contemperate

1. inflection of contemperare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

contemperate f pl

1. feminine plural of contemperato

• compenetrate, copertamente

contemperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of contemperō