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Tumult vs Distemper - What's the difference?

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Tumult is a related term of distemper.


As nouns the difference between tumult and distemper

is that tumult is tumult, ruckus, row while distemper is (veterinary medicine|pathology) 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.

tumult

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.
  • Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
    • the tumult of the elements
    the tumult of the spirits or passions
  • A riot or uprising.

    • Related terms

    * tumultuous

    Synonyms

    * uproar * ruckus

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
    • Importuning and tumulting even to the fear of a revolt. — Milton.
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    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)