distem per (2), destemper

[Ital. distem perare =to mix or di olve with a liquid.] 1. A preparation of whiting ground with size and water, with which ceilings are generally covered; plastered walls, when not painted or papered, are also so covered, and are called colored when a tint is used in it. 2. A mode of painting with opaque colors, principally used for walls, ceilings, domes, theatrical scenes, ., in which the colors are mixed with chalk or clay, and diluted with size. Tempera painting was practiced in ancient Egypt. The wall was covered with a coating of lime or gypsum. The outline was sketched in with red chalk and then filled out with black. The painter levigated his colors and mixed them with water, placed them on a palette hung to his wrist, and applied them to the surface on which he was at work. It was also practiced in Greece and Rome. The cartoons of Raphael are in distemper. It is common for auditoriums. Kalsomine (or calcimine) is a form of it. ( Knight .) "The difference [between distemper and fresco-painting] is this- distemper is painted on a dry surface, fresco on wet mortar or plaster." -Fairholt : Dict. of Art. *dis-těm-per, *dis-tem-pren, v . t . [O. Fr. des temprer; Port. destemperar ; Ital. distemper are, from Lat. dis = away, apart, and tempero = to temper (q. v.).] 1. To change or aerange the due proportions or temper of. "Whan the humours in his body ben distem pered."- Chaucer : Parson's Tale. 2. To confuse, to destroy the arrangement of. "For di olution wrought by sin, that first Distempered all things, and of incorrupt Corrupted." Milton: P. L. , xi. 55-7. 3. To disorder or disturb in constitution. "That dis temp eres a mon in body and soule." - Wycliffe: Select Works, iii. 157. 4. To fill with perturbation or uneasine ; to disturb, to vex. "The king is marvelous distempered." Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 2. 5. To deprive of temper or moderation. "They will have admirers among posterity, and be equally celebrated by those whose minds will not be dis tempered by interest, pa ion, or partiality."- Add is on : Freeholder. 6. To make disaffected, di atisfied, or discontented. dis-těm pēr, v . t . [Ital. distemper are .] To mako into distemper. "Distempering the colors with ox-gall."- Sir W. Petty. *dis-těm-pěr, *dis-tem-pre, a . [DISTEMPER, ข.] Violent, immoderate, or unrestrained in temper. "Gif he be distempre and quakith for ire."-Chaucer: Boethius, p. 121. *dis-těm-per-ançe, *des-tem-praunce, *distem-per-aunce, s. [O. Fr. des temp rance ; Prov. destempransa; Port. destemperanza ; Sp. destem planza ; Ital.distemperanza .] Distemperature, indisposition. "Diseases grew; dis temperance made me swell." Mirror for Magistrates , p. 112. *dis-těm-per-ate, a . [Pref. dis (neg.), and Eng. temperate (q. v.); Ital. distemper a to .] 1. Immoderate, unrestrained, exce ive, intemperate. "So to bridle the distemperate affections of men."-Bp. Hall: Sermons, No. 12. 2. Diseased, disordered. "Thou hast thy brain distemperate and out of rule." Woodroephe. *dis-těm'-per-a-türe, s. [Pref. dis , and Eng. temperature (q. v.).] 1. Intemperatene ; exce of heat or cold, or of other qualities. "Through this distemperature we see The seasons alter." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1. 2. Disease or disorder of the body. "A dejection occasioned from the distemperature of the body."- Sharp : Sermons, vol. iii., § 2. 3. Disorder or derangement of the mind. "Upon what ground is his distemperature?" Shakesp.: Pericles, v. i. 4. Outrageousne , exce , tumultuousne . 5. Confusion, lo of regularity, commixture of contrarieties. "Tell how the world fell into this disease, And how so great distemperature did grow." Daniel: Civil Wars, bk. i. 1472 dis-těm'-pered, pa. par. & a. [DISTEMPER, v.] A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: 1. Disordered or diseased in body. "What is weak, Distempered, or has lost prolific powers, Impaired by age, his unrelenting hand Dooms to the knife." -Cowper : Task , iii. 414-17. 2. Mentally disordered or deranged. "Meanwhile, in the distempered mind of Charles one mania succeeded another."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxiv. IMG:content-0209.png:[blocks in formation] *5. Disaffected, di atisfied, discontented. "Once more to-day, well met, distempered lords." Shakesp.: King John, iv. 3. *6. Of a disagreeable or evil temperature. "No scope of nature, no distempered day." Shakesp.: King John , iii. 4. *dis-těm-pered-ne , s . [Eng. distempered; -ne .] The quality or state of being distempered; distemperature. "The distempered ne and in venomed ne of spirit which is within you."- State Trials; John Lilburne (an. 1649). *dis-těm-per-ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [DISTEMPER, v .] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of rendering distempered. *dis-těm'-per-ment, s . [Eng. distemper ; -ment.] A distempered state; distemperature. "By the torne air's distemper ment ." Feltham: Lusoria, bk. xxiv. distichium *dis-tent', a. & s. (Latin distent us , pa. par. of distendo.] A. As adj .: Spread, beaten out. "Some others were new driven and distent Into great ingots and to wedges square." Spenser: F. Q., II. vii. 5. B. As subst.: Breadth, expansion, dilation. (See example under the following word.) *dis-těnt', v . t. [Lat. distento , a freq. form from distendo.] To distend; to spread or widen out; to enlarge. "Those arches are the gracefullest, which, keeping precisely the same height, shall yet be dis tented one-fourteenth part longer, which addition of distent will confer much to their beauty." - Wotton: Architecture.