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noun

Distemperature n.

Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. (Obs.)

Disorder; confusion.

Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. "A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life."

Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness. "Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his distemperature."

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Etymology of 'Distemperature'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... unwholesome den: many of the guiltless inmates were so wasted that they were rather like frightful effigies of death than living men. Their skins were yellow, and their hands were roped and warpt with veins and sinews in a manner very awful to see. Their eyes were vivid with a strange distemperature, and there was a charnel-house anatomy in the melancholy with which they welcomed a new brother in affliction, that made me feel, when I entered among them, as if I had come into the dark abode of spectres, and manes, and ...

— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt