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Distemper vs Ailing - What's the difference?

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Distemper is a related term of ailing.


As nouns the difference between distemper and ailing

is that distemper is (veterinary medicine|pathology) a viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh while ailing is an ailment.

As verbs the difference between distemper and ailing

is that distemper is to temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of while ailing is .

As an adjective ailing is

sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

distemper

English

Noun

(wikipedia distemper) (en noun)
  • (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= 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.}}
  • A painting produced with this kind of paint.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
    • (Chaucer)
  • To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Buckminster
    • The imagination, when completely distempered , is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
  • To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
  • * Coleridge
    • distempered spirits
  • To intoxicate.
  • * Massinger
    • The courtiers reeling, / And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered , / But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing.
  • To paint using distemper.
  • To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
    • to distemper colors with size

    Conjugation

    (en-conj-simple)

    ailing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ailment.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

    • Anagrams

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