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contemperates

contemperates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of contemperate.

Meaning of contemperate

Verb

contemperate (third-person singular simple present contemperates, present participle contemperating, simple past and past participle contemperated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To temper; to moderate.
    • Moisten and contemperate the air.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Questions about contemperates

What is contemperates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Contemperates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of contemperate.

Words near contemperates in the dictionary

  1. contemns
  2. contemp
  3. contemp.
  4. contemper
  5. contemperate
  6. contemperates
  7. contemperation
  8. contemperations
  9. contemperature
  10. contempered
  11. contempering

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