Middle English Dictionary Entry
temprelī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | temprelī adv. Also temprali, temperal(l)i, temperelli, temparali, temporal(l)i & (error) temperache. |
| Etymology | From tempre adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. attempreli adv.
1.
(a) In moderation, with restraint; also, without having overindulged in food and drink [quot. c1475]; (b) modestly, simply; (c) in moderate degree.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)236b/a : Notes..ben..norisshynge to hem þat eteþ hem temperalliche [vr. tempreliche; L temperate].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)261b/a : Bestes þat vseþ..continuaunce of seruice of venus haueþ moche schortere lif þan þilke bestes þat serueþ venus temperaliche and sielde.
- c1415 Chaucer CT.Sh.(Corp-O 198)B.1452 : Gouerneþ ȝou also of ȝoure dyete And temperally [vrr. temperelly, temperaly, temparaly; Heng: Atemprely].
- c1475 Fyrst a-rysse (Brm)p.13 : Goo to thy met happely..A-rysse fro thy met tempraly.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)237/35 : Tho men whych kepyth reysonabill diette and lywen temprely bene more hole of body.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Lamb 633)191/10 : Her is to wit of the temporat loue that shold be betwen A man and his wif, And how he shold know and us hir temporaly.
b
- c1475 St.Anne(2) (Trin-C R.3.21)324 : They..The thryd part to theyr owne vse reseruyd, Wheron they lyuyd bothe temporally.
- a1500 Scrope DSP (Add 34193)116/8 : Temperally [Bod: if a man be riche, to lyue temperatly].
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)25a/a : By C[ircu]lernes of þe lyme temperat soun I-fonge temperalliche betiþ nouȝt þe spirit of heringe.
- c1475 WBk.Phil.& Astron.(Cmb Ll.4.14)16 : Venus ys a bryght sterre..temperache [vr. temperallyche] colde & moiste.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)242/1 : Whoso nedyth that to done [drink water], drynke a lytill and colde temprely.