Middle English Dictionary Entry
temperaunt adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | temperaunt adj. Also temporaunt. |
| Etymology | From L temperans, -antis, ppl. of temperāre; cp. F (16th cent.) temperant. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Restrained, mild, gentle; (b) abstemious, temperate; (c) having a moderate climate or temperature.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Tim.3.3 : It bihoueth a byschop for to be..sobre, prudent..not ȝouun moche to wyn, not smyter, but temperaunt, or pacient, not litigious.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Tit.3.2 : Amoneste..hem..for to be not litygious..but temperaunt [WB(2): temperat], or pacient, schewinge al myldenesse to alle men.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)17.164 (v.1:p.160) : Instruct .. was Poule in the lore Both of Egipcians and Grekis letterure, Sad eke of port, of contenaunce demure, Temperant, modest, discrete eke and sage, Politik and prudent as for his age.
b
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)2.39.121b : Þe gifte of luf sleeþ fleschly lustes of glotonye & makiþ þe soule sobre & temperaunt.
c
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.121 : For vynys now, a poynt of husbondrie: Northward in placis hoot; in placis colde, Southward; and temperaunt in est and west.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)52.74 (v.1:p.328) : The cruel prefect made blissid Iulian to be cast in to a potte ful of boilyng molten leed, the which to here was as temporaunt and as plesaunt as though she had ben in a bath ful of swete herbis.