tempered
Adjective
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Adjective
tempered (not comparable)
- (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.
, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140525073119/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=346264183&tag=Hawthorne%2C+Nathaniel%2C+1804-1864%3A+The+House+of+the+Seven+Gables%2C+1851&query=tempered&id=Haw3Gab Chapter 19.] - The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.
- Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
- 1851, Herman Melville, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140525073203/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=475125179&textreg=1&query=tempered&id=Mel2Mob Moby Dick.]
- "Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming — "Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life!"
- 1851, Herman Melville, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140525073203/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=475125179&textreg=1&query=tempered&id=Mel2Mob Moby Dick.]
- Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
- Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140525073145/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=748286979&tag=Wollstonecraft%2C+Mary%2C+1759-1797%3A+A+vindication+of+the+rights+of+woman%2C+1892&query=tempered&id=WolVind A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.]
- 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.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140525073145/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=748286979&tag=Wollstonecraft%2C+Mary%2C+1759-1797%3A+A+vindication+of+the+rights+of+woman%2C+1892&query=tempered&id=WolVind A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.]
- (music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
- See also Thesaurus:moderate
- Simple past tense and past participle of temper
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