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tem⋅per
–noun| 1. | a particular state of mind or feelings. |
| 2. | habit of mind, esp. with respect to irritability or patience, outbursts of anger, or the like; disposition: an even temper. |
| 3. | heat of mind or passion, shown in outbursts of anger, resentment, etc. |
| 4. | calm disposition or state of mind: to be out of temper. |
| 5. | a substance added to something to modify its properties or qualities. |
| 6. | Metallurgy.
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| 7. | Archaic. a middle course; compromise. |
| 8. | Obsolete. the constitution or character of a substance. |
| 9. | to moderate or mitigate: to temper justice with mercy. |
| 10. | to soften or tone down. |
| 11. | to bring to a proper, suitable, or desirable state by or as by blending or admixture. |
| 12. | to moisten, mix, and work up into proper consistency, as clay or mortar. |
| 13. | Metallurgy. to impart strength or toughness to (steel or cast iron) by heating and cooling. |
| 14. | to produce internal stresses in (glass) by sudden cooling from low red heat; toughen. |
| 15. | to tune (a keyboard instrument, as a piano, organ, or harpsichord) so as to make the tones available in different keys or tonalities. |
| 16. | to modify (color) by mixing with a medium. |
| 17. | Archaic. to combine or blend in due proportions. |
| 18. | Archaic. to pacify. |
| 19. | to be or become tempered. |
Origin:
bef. 1000; (v.) ME tempren, OE temprian < L temperāre to divide or proportion duly, temper; (n.) ME: proportion, deriv. of the v.
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bef. 1000; (v.) ME tempren, OE temprian < L temperāre to divide or proportion duly, temper; (n.) ME: proportion, deriv. of the v.

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