Disarrangement vs Distemper - What's the difference?
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(veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
(archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
* 1719- (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
A water-based paint.
* , chapter=10
, title= A painting produced with this kind of paint.
To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
* Buckminster
To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
* Coleridge
To intoxicate.
* Massinger
To paint using distemper.
To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
As nouns the difference between disarrangement and distemper
is that disarrangement is upset of the normal order while distemper is a viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.As a verb distemper is
to temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.distemper
English
Noun
(wikipedia distemper) (en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
Verb
(en verb)- (Chaucer)
- (Shakespeare)
- The imagination, when completely distempered , is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
- distempered spirits
- The courtiers reeling, / And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered , / But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing.
- to distemper colors with size