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distemper

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9 lettersPronunciation /dɪsˈtɛmpə(ɹ)/Part of speech noun, verbSorted deeimprstStarts with DEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A contagious animal disease, or a water-based paint.

Word origin

From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare.

Used in a sentence

  • […] and is the onlie laſt remedie for all debilities which haue long vexed the body through a hote diſtemper of the Lever, ſuch as a hote Gutte; it allayeth all Inflamations inward & outward.
  • O perplex'd diſcompoſition, O ridling diſtemper, O miſerable condition of Man.
  • [M]y spirits began to sink under the Burden of a strong Distemper, and Nature was exhausted with the Violence of the Fever […]

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