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–noun

1.	a technique of painting in which an emulsion consisting of water and pure egg yolk or a mixture of egg and oil is used as a binder or medium, characterized by its lean film-forming properties and rapid drying rate.

2.	a painting executed in this technique.

3.	a water paint used in this technique in which the egg-water or egg-oil emulsion is used as a binder. Compare distemper² (defs. 1, 2).

[Origin: 1825–35; < It, short for (pingere a) tempera (painting in) distemper, deriv. of temperare to mingle, temper; see temper

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n.

A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color, poster paint.
Painting done in this medium.

[Italian, from temperare, to mingle, from Latin temperāre; see temper.]

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tempera

1832, from It. tempera (in phrase pingere a tempera), from temperare "to mix colors, temper," from L. temperare "to mix" (see temper).

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tempera
noun
pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk

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Dis*tem"per\, n. [See Distemper, v. t., and cf. Destemprer.]

1. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. --Bacon.

Note: This meaning and most of the following are to be referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four "humors" in man. See Humor. According to the old physicians, these humors, when unduly tempered, produce a disordered state of body and mind.

2. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. [Obs.]

Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable. --Sir W. Raleigh.

3. A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.

They heighten distempers to diseases. --Suckling.

4. Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor. [Obs.]

Little faults proceeding on distemper. --Shak.

Some frenzy distemper had got into his head. --Bunyan.

5. Political disorder; tumult. --Waller.

6. (Paint.) (a) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms. (b) A painting done with this preparation.

Syn: Disease; disorder; sickness; illness; malady; indisposition; ailment. See Disease.

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Tempera

Tem"pe*ra\, n. [It.] (Paint.) A mode or process of painting; distemper.

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