distemperate.
Immoderate, excessive.
Meaning & usage
Immoderate, excessive.
Not temperate, of no good influence for one's confort or soundness; (figuratively) unwholesome, stormy.
Not properly tempered; disordered through excess or deficiency of some constituent; (by extensions, of bodily or mental condition) disordered, out of order; diseased, out of health; ill-conditioned.
Where this word comes from
First attested in 1398, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English distemperat(e), borrowed from Medieval Latin distemperātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + temperātus, perfect passive participle of temperō (“to temperate oneself, show restraint”).
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