Synonyms for distemper


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dis-tem-per
Phonetic Transcription : dɪsˈtɛm pər


Définition of distemper

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "to disturb," from Old French destemprer, from Medieval Latin distemperare "vex, make ill," literally "upset the proper balance (of bodily humors)," from dis- "un-, not" (see dis-) + Latin temperare "mingle in the proper proportion" (see temper (v.)). Related: Distempered.
  • noun disturbance
Example sentences :
  • Well, I hope just as I get fond of them they will not have the distemper and die!
  • Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
  • My distemper was a pleurisy, which very nearly carried me off.
  • Extract from : « Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin » by Benjamin Franklin
  • They say when horses have distemper he takes the medicine himself, and then prays over the horses.
  • Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather
  • The French had coined a name for the distemper and called it folie d'Afrique.
  • Extract from : « The Explorer » by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Finding him a man of reason, I entered into the bottom of his distemper.
  • Extract from : « Isaac Bickerstaff » by Richard Steele
  • I would not ha your distemper in this kind for the wealth of Windsor Castle.
  • Extract from : « The Merry Wives of Windsor » by William Shakespeare
  • I thought that distemper had been only proper to people of quality?
  • Extract from : « The Beaux-Stratagem » by George Farquhar
  • The boss is like the measles, a distemper of a self-governing people's infancy.
  • Extract from : « The Battle with the Slum » by Jacob A. Riis.
  • Corneille Ingelrams, a painter in distemper, was born in 1527.
  • Extract from : « Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders » by George Wharton Edwards
  • On his return from this expedition he was seized with the distemper of which he died.
  • Extract from : « Windsor Castle » by William Harrison Ainsworth

Antonyms for distemper

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