tempered

[Eng. temper, s.; -ed.] 1. Having a certain temper or disposition; disposed; usually in composition, as good- tempered , hot- tempered , . "If I had not an excellent tempered patience, now should I break this fellow's head." - Beaum . & Flet .: Cox comb , ii. 2. Subjected to and improved by the operation of tempering (q. v.); hardened. "This sceptre, formed by tempered steel to prove An ensign of the delegates of Jove." Pope: Homer's Iliad , i. 314. tempered-gla , s . [TOUGHENED-GLASS.] tempered-steel, s . [STEEL, 8. , II. 1.]