Synonyms for distemper

Grammar : Noun

Spell : dis-tem-per

Phonetic Transcription : dɪsˈtɛm pər

Définition of distemper

Origin : mid-14c., "to disturb," from Old French destemprer, from Medieval Latin distemperare "vex, make ill," literally "upset the proper balance (of bodily humors)," from dis- "un-, not" (see dis-) + Latin temperare "mingle in the proper proportion" (see temper (v.)). Related: Distempered.

noun disturbance

Example sentences :

Well, I hope just as I get fond of them they will not have the distemper and die!
Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet

My distemper was a pleurisy, which very nearly carried me off.
Extract from : « Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin » by Benjamin Franklin

They say when horses have distemper he takes the medicine himself, and then prays over the horses.
Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather

The French had coined a name for the distemper and called it folie d'Afrique.
Extract from : « The Explorer » by W. Somerset Maugham

Finding him a man of reason, I entered into the bottom of his distemper.
Extract from : « Isaac Bickerstaff » by Richard Steele

I would not ha your distemper in this kind for the wealth of Windsor Castle.
Extract from : « The Merry Wives of Windsor » by William Shakespeare

I thought that distemper had been only proper to people of quality?
Extract from : « The Beaux-Stratagem » by George Farquhar

The boss is like the measles, a distemper of a self-governing people's infancy.
Extract from : « The Battle with the Slum » by Jacob A. Riis.

Corneille Ingelrams, a painter in distemper, was born in 1527.
Extract from : « Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders » by George Wharton Edwards

On his return from this expedition he was seized with the distemper of which he died.
Extract from : « Windsor Castle » by William Harrison Ainsworth

Antonyms for distemper

health

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