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Definition of Temper

Temper To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm. To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate. To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. To govern; to manage. To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc. To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar. Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper. Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel. Middle state or course; mean; medium. Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar. To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity. To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable. Related Definitions: Accord, Act, Actual, Adding, Adjust, Agree, An, And, Anger, Any, As, Assuage, Blood, Body, Brick, Bring, By, Calm, Calmness, Choler, Clarify, Clay, Combination, Combining, Composure, Compound, Conformity, Consistency, Constitution, Cooling, Course, Degree, Desired, Different, Disposition, Due, Element, Employed, Equanimity, Especially, Fit, For, Formerly, Four, Fretful, From, Get, Govern, Grow, Hardness, Hasty, Have, Heat, Heating, Hence, In, Ingredient, Iron, Irritation, Just, Keep, Lime, Loam, Making, Manage, Mathematical, Mean, Medium, Melancholy, Metal, Middle, Milk, Mind, Mingle, Mixture, Moderation, Modify, Moisten, Molding, Mollify, Mortar, New, Of, Old, One, Or, Other, Particularly, Passion, Phlegm, Pliable, Prepare, Process, Produced, Proneness, Proper, Proportion, Qualify, Qualities, Quality, Regard, Relative, Reproachful, Scale, Sense, Soft, Soften, Some, Soothe, State, Steel, Stir, Substance, Sugar, Temper, Temperament, That, The, Think, Thoroughly, To, Together, Use, Used, Various, Which, With

Temper Quotations Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. William Butler Yeats O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! William Shakespeare The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Temper Translations temper in Dutch is harden, temperen, stalen temper in Italian is temperamento, furia temper in Latin is tempero temper in Spanish is humor, furia, temperamento

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