Definitions
adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
Word origin
From Middle English tempred, itempered, ytempred, ytemprid, from Old English ġetemprod (“tempered, moderate, goverened, cured”), past participle of Old English ġetemprian (“to temper, moderate, govern, cure”), equivalent to temper + -ed.
Used in a sentence
“even-tempered”
“The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection.”
“[N]obody knows how the wind is tempered to shorn Irish lambs, and in what marvellous places they find pasture.”
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01“Moderated”8 letters
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