Attemper vs Attemperate - What's the difference?
attemper | attemperate |
To temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
To mitigate, assuage.
(archaic) To regulate, arrange, organise.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
*:Thus fairely she attempered her feast, / And pleasd them all with meete satietie [...].
Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.
* Hammond
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between attemper and attemperate
is that attemper is (archaic) to regulate, arrange, organise while attemperate is (archaic) to attemper.As verbs the difference between attemper and attemperate
is that attemper is to temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities while attemperate is (archaic) to attemper.As an adjective attemperate is
tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.attemper
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Alternative forms
* attempre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)attemperate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Hope must be attemperate to the promise.