intemerate

• intemerated (obsolete, rare)

First attested in 1492, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin intemerātus, from in- (“not”) + temerātus, perfect passive participle of temerō (“to violate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from temerē (“by chance, casually, rashly”).

intemerate (comparative more intemerate, superlative most intemerate)

1. (rare) Pure, undefiled, chaste.
   • 1792, William Coxe, Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark‎^[1]:

     The states of the kingdom are bound, with faithful concern, to leave intemerate all the royal prerogatives, after the dictates of the Swedish law, so that they shall be kept in their full vigor and strength ...

   • 1846, William Harrison Ainsworth, Ainsworth's Magazine‎^[2]:

     The flagrant corruption and prostitution of all that is sacred at Rome, had never spread its taint into his upright, intemerate soul.

   • 1864, Epes Sargent, Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition‎^[3]:

     You mean to make her your wife ; and the wife of Carberry Ratcliff must be intemerate!

   • 1865, David Masson, George Grove & John Morley, Macmillan's Magazine‎^[4]:

     And hitherto their flesh had been intemerate and inviolable; the strictest orders had been issued that none should dare to slap them, and all were only too prone to coax and pet the beautiful angels.

intemerate

1. feminine plural of intemerato

intemerāte

1. vocative masculine singular of intemerātus

• “intemerate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intemerate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.