Any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
Noun
a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
Noun
a painting created by distemper
Noun
paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
Noun
an angry and disagreeable mood
Noun
any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
Verb
paint with distemper
v. t.
To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to
change the due proportions of.
v. t.
To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental,
or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
v. t.
To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to
ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.
v. t.
To intoxicate.
v. t.
To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to
distemper colors with size.
v. t.
An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate
mixture of parts.
v. t.
Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or
cold.
v. t.
A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition;
malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes;
as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in
cattle.
v. t.
Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a
passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
v. t.
Political disorder; tumult.
v. t.
A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the
pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera)
instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings
of rooms.
v. t.
A painting done with this preparation.
Distemper
When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered.2.
The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.3.
The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing.5.
Distemper
Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable.3.
They heighten distempers to diseases.4.
Little faults proceeding on distemper.
Some frenzy distemper had got into his head.5.
To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.
Usage Examples
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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