2. Adjective. (archaic) Affected with or suffering from distemper; diseased. ¹
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Definition of Distempered
1. distemper [v] - See also: distemper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distempered
Literary usage of Distempered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by George Francis Dow (1913)
"... Silsby and Robert Driver, for being distempered with strong liquors. ...
for being distempered with wine. William Smith, for drunkenness a second time. ..."
2. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"Here his wit and malice endeavoured to reap what God's Spirit did never intentionally
sow, and urged that a bad king (the distempered head of a state) is ..."
3. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1851)
"We find examples of a distempered state of mind, like the demoniacal, which had
been brought on by such inward distraction.1 Others, after they had been ..."
4. Notes on Politics and History: A University Address by John Morley (1914)
"Bishop Berkeley, for example, the most ardent philanthropist of his day, despaired
of the distempered civilization of his country, and showed in practice by ..."
5. The Lauderdale Papers by John Maitland Lauderdale, Osmund Airy (1884)
"... of this distempered church. I long to know how it is with you, and if the
motions which I have ever made to you by your freinds for entring into the ..."
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