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Distempered vs Ailing - What's the difference?

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Distempered is a related term of ailing.


As verbs the difference between distempered and ailing

is that distempered is (distemper) while ailing is .

As adjectives the difference between distempered and ailing

is that distempered is (archaic) affected with or suffering from distemper; diseased while ailing is sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

As a noun ailing is

an ailment.

distempered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (distemper)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Affected with or suffering from distemper; diseased.
  • * 1592–1609': I, sick withal, the help of bath desired, / And thither hied, a sad ' distemper'd guest, / But found no cure: the bath for my help lies / Where Cupid got new fire--my mistress' eyes. — William Shakespeare, Sonnet CLIII.

    • 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.

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