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attempre

attempre is the obsolete form of attemper.

Meaning of attemper

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

Forms of attempre

third-person singular presentattempres
present participleattempring
past participleattempred
pastattempred

Questions about attempre

What is attempre the obsolete form of?
Attempre is the obsolete form of attemper.

Words near attempre in the dictionary

  1. attempereth
  2. attempering
  3. attemperly
  4. attemperment
  5. attempers
  6. attempre
  7. attempres
  8. attempring
  9. attempt
  10. attemptability
  11. attemptable

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