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
- 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
- IÂ 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
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