temerIty,temeritie

[Fr. témérité, from Lat. temeritatem, acc us. of temeritas, from temere =rashly, from the same root as Sansc.tam as =darkne , dimne .] Heedle ne or reckle ne of consequences; extreme venturesomene ; reckle ne , rashne . "He soon became, unfortunately for his country, bold even to temerity ." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xv. *těm-er-ous, a. [Lat. temere =rashly.] Reckle , rash. "Temerous tauntre e that delights in toyes." Uncertaine Authors: Agt . an Unstedfast Woman. *těm-er-oŭs-ly, adv . [English temerous ; -ly .] Reckle ly, rashly. "Not that I temerously diffine anything to come." Bale : Image , pt. ii., fo. 69. těm-in, s . [Native term.] A money of account in Algiers, equivalent to two cambes or twenty-nine aspers, about 17s. sterling. Těm-minck, s. [C. J. Temminck, a Dutch naturalist, director of the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Haarlem, who from 1807 to 1815 published works on mammals and birds.] (See etym. and compounds.) Temminck's bat, s . Zool.: Scotophil us temminckii , about three inches long, varying considerably in color, generally dark olive-brown above, and reddish or yellowish white below. It has a wide range in the East. 4024 Temminck's tragopan, s. Ornith.: Ceriornis temminckii . [TRAGOPAN.]