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Word Meanings - TEMPERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad- tempered man; a well-tempered sword.

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  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
  • GENIALLY
    1. By genius or nature; naturally. Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill. 2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.
  • APPROPRIATENESS
    The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
  • TEMPER SCREW
    1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
  • PLACID
    Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
  • TENDERLY
    In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
  • TENDERNESS
    The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • LENIENTLY
    In a lenient manner.
  • APPROPRIATE
    Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
  • WITHDRAWAL
    The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
  • GENIALNESS
    The quality of being genial.
  • GENIALITY
    The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
  • WITHDRAW
    1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
  • WITHDRAWER
    One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
  • MODERATE
    Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree
  • PLACIDNESS
    The quality or state of being placid.
  • GENTLEWOMAN
    1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
  • TEMPERER
    One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
  • WITHHOLD
    1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall
  • DISTEMPERATE
    1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
  • ATTEMPER
    1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice
  • PRIMOGENIAL
    First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.
  • DISTEMPERATURE
    1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
  • UNTEMPERATE
    Intemperate.
  • ILL-TEMPERED
    1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.
  • PRETENDER
    The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
  • CONGENIALLY
    In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
  • UNAPPROPRIATE
    1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.

 

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