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destemprer (s.xii1/3)
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The form destemprant is a cross reference to the following entry:

destemprer (s.xii1/3)

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deçtemprer;  detemperer,  detemprer,  dettemprer;  desstemprer,  destemperer,  destempreir;  destremper;  distemperer,  distemprer  
  FEW:  temperare 13/i,173a Gdf:  destremper 2,671a / destrempé 2,670c GdfC:  destremper 9,364a TL: destremper 2,1795 DEAF:  temprer (destemprer)  DMF:  distemperer  TLF: ∅ OED:  distemper v. 1  / distemper v. 2  MED:  distemperen v.  / distempre a.  DMLBS:  distemperare 697c

v.trans.

1culin.to mix, stir together: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Quant P. ot fet le boivere destemprer E le tendy au roy, [...]  Rom Chev ANTS 2812
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Pernez drasche de oylle et arnement [...] et destemprez ensemble  Rom 32 (O.2.45) 113.7
♦pharm.med.to brew, prepare (a potion): 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  (Antipater) detempra uns herbez; Le venim fu mult fort, ly vins eleborez  Rom Chev ANTS 7906
♦textileto mix, prepare (a colour): 
( s.xiim; MS: s.xiim )  Ki vuldrat destempreir vermellun prenget un of [...]  Colour Treatise 206
2pharm.med.to moisten (with), dissolve (in): 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  galactide [...]; O aiue s’el est destempree La mandre dedenz arosee, Les berbiz lait asez avront  Lapid 60.779
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 )  Cecolitus [...] si hom la destrempet od ewe et dunet a beivre [...]  Lapid 109.XLII.2
( MS: s.xiiim )  poudrez tot et destemprez de bon vin  Rom 32 (O.1.20) 83
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  A malade qui ne poet dormir, destempre la coriandre od vin  Med Pres1 135.28
( MS: c.1325 )  lé fettez estamper en un morter e dettemprer ow un poy de bone vinegre  Receptaria 113.269
( MS: s.xvin )  pur chaude ydropesy homme doit [...] moldrere les vermes e distemperez eux od ewe benet  A-N Med ii 8
3also_fig.to wash away: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Granz portes i fist fere [...]. Arme nes put percer ne ewe destemprer  Rom Chev ANTS 6558
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Le truboyl de vye mundeyne […] la pes denszeyne […] sovent destempre  S Fran ANTS 5531
♦to cleanse: 
( s.xiim; MS: s.xiiiin )  Jo vi asquanz ki destemprerent les perles, si en laverent les taches blaunches del cors, si s’en alerent  Lapid 108.17
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  la compunctiun hoche le quor e rince de la rusee, tant ke l’ordure des pecchiez [...] destempre e esloce des funz  Joshua Sermons i 17

v.absol.

pharm.med.to mix: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Pernez le test de grand nois [...] e desstemprez od saim [...]  A-N Med i 87
( MS: c.1300 )  Pernez semence de ache [...]. E destemprez o (l) le blanc de l’oef [...]. Pus fetes tente [...] e moillez cele tente en la destemperure  Pop Med 315.5

p.pr. as a.

med.upsetting to the proper balance of the humours: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Medicine dunc prendre deit. Meske trop destemprant ne seit  Secr abernun 2117

p.p. as a.

1 mixed: 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Cele terra est mot sabelenuse e ne porte fors busuns e tere destempree  Relatio Tripartita 125
2med.distempered, with one's humours unbalanced: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  distemperatam: deçtempré  TLL ii 99
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Dunc (=after over-eating and lechery) est la char si destrempee Ki des tuz mals est enflambee  Mirur1 118vb36
( c.1259; MS: c.1259 ) Sarrazins sanz lei e fei e peis, e mut sunt chaudes e destemprees  Iter paris 168
destempré de
mixed with: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  E cil li ad puisun dunee De venim tute destempree  Brut WACE 8272
mal destempré
med.unbalanced, disordered: 
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  ma male destempree chalour de pecché  Sz Med1 203
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