Temperate vs Tempered - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between temperate and tempered

is that temperate is moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate while tempered is of one's disposition.

As verbs the difference between temperate and tempered

is that temperate is (obsolete) to render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper while tempered is (temper).

temperate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.

*:Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.

*(rfdate) (1809-1892)

*:That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.

Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.

*(rfdate) (Benjamin Franklin) (1706-1790)

*:Be sober and temperate , and you will be healthy.

*:I am a temperate man and have made it a rule not to drink before luncheon. But I was so much ashamed of my first feeling about Gorman that I thought it well to break my rule.I gave my vote for whisky and soda as the more thorough-going drink of the two. A cocktail is seldom more than a mouthful.

Proceeding from temperance.

*(rfdate) (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.

Living in an environment that is temperate, not extreme.

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* See also

Derived terms

* (geology) temperate zone, that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.

Verb

(temperat)

(obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.

:* It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston .

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tempered

English

Adjective

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Of one's disposition.

The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.'' — Nathaniel Hawthorne, ''The House of the Seven Gables , Chapter 19.

Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.

1851' ''"Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming -- "Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! '''Tempered''' in blood, and '''tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life!"'' — Herman Melville, '' Moby Dick.

Of something moderated or balanced by other considerations.

1792' ''The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not '''tempered by reflection'' — Mary Wollstonecraft, '' A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

(music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* untempered

Verb

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(temper)