distempered
41tinted — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. colored, shaded, dyed, tinged, painted, tinctured, washed, stained, distempered, crayoned, touched up …
42distemper — English has two distinct words distemper, although ultimately they come from the same source, Latin temperāre ‘mingle’ (source of English temper, temperate, and temperature). This formed the basis of two separate medieval Latin verbs, both… …
43distemper — mid 14c., to disturb (v.), from O.Fr. destemprer, from M.L. distemperare vex, make ill, lit. upset the proper balance (of bodily humors), from dis un , not (see DIS (Cf. dis )) + L. temperare mingle in the proper proportion (see TEMPER (Cf.… …
44distemper — distemper1 [dɪ stɛmpə] noun a kind of paint having a base of glue or size instead of oil, used on walls. ↘a method of mural and poster painting using this. verb [often as adjective distempered] paint with distemper. Origin ME (orig. as a verb in… …
45diseased — a. Disordered, distempered, unsound, sickly, sick …
46sick — a. 1. Ill, indisposed, ailing, unwell, laid up. 2. Nauseated, affected with nausea, sick at the stomach, inclined to vomit. 3. Disgusted, tired, weary. 4. Diseased, weak, morbid, unsound, distempered, disordered, feeble. 5. Pining, languishing,… …
47sicken — I. v. a. 1. Disease, make sick. 2. Nauseate, make sick, turn one s stomach, make qualmish. 3. Disgust, weary. II. v. n. 1. Become sick, fall sick, fall ill. 2. Be disgusted, feel disgust, become qualmish. 3. D …
48morbid — adj 1. somber, morose, pessimistic, blue, melancholic, atrabilious, hypochondriacal; depressed, despondent, dejected, out of sorts, Inf. in the dumps; gloomy, lugubrious, dreary, dull, glum. 2. unwholesome, unhealthy, sick, unsound; sickly,… …
49distemper — English has two distinct words distemper, although ultimately they come from the same source, Latin temperāre ‘mingle’ (source of English temper, temperate, and temperature). This formed the basis of two separate medieval Latin verbs, both… …
50intemperature — ə̇n+ noun Etymology: in (I) + temperature archaic : distempered state : intemperance this season, the intemperature of which may last till the middle of May Tobias Smollett …
