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humeur
, caractère
, tempérament
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Temper
- (v. t.) To govern; to manage.
- (v. t.) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
- (v. t.) To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.
- (n.) Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.
- (n.) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.
- (v. t.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- (n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
- (n.) Middle state or course; mean; medium.
- (v. t.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.
- (n.) Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep ones temper.
- (v. t.) To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
- (v. i.) To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
- (v. i.) To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
- (n.) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
- (n.) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.
- (n.) Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.
Synonyms:
Anneal, Biliousness, Chasten, Harden, Humor, Irritability, Irritation, Moderate, Mollify, Mood, Peevishness, Pique, Season, Surliness, Toughness,
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• Temperative
- (a.) Having power to temper.
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forgather, flamingo, strap, peer, ornery, transformers, angle of incidence, hypocrite, mule, call for, coif, fact, minelayer, lessening, goof, crib, ramification, pains, pornographic, cane, labialization, hug, tradition, deplore, cog, mucus, stampedes, karat, me, sincere, phlebotomize, observer, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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