attempereth

Verb

attemper (third-person singular simple present attempers, present participle attempering, simple past and past participle attempered)

1. To temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
2. To mitigate, assuage.
   • But we must add, that she did say, by way of attempering her pleasure: "Well! I must say I never saw a finer young man in my life—indeed I don’t know that the court of Great Britain quite boasts his equal...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 86
3. (archaic) To regulate, arrange, organise.
   • Thus fairely she attempered her feast, / And pleasd them all with meete satietie [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC