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tem·pered    Audio Help   [tem-perd] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.having a temper or disposition of a specified character (usually used in combination): a good-tempered child.
2.Music. tuned in accordance with some other temperament than just or pure temperament, esp. tuned in equal temperament.
3.made less intense or violent, esp. by the influence of something good or benign: justice tempered with mercy.
4.properly moistened or mixed, as clay.
5.Metallurgy. of or pertaining to steel or cast iron that has been tempered.
[Origin: 1325–75; ME; see temper, -ed2, -ed3]
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tem·per    Audio Help   (těm'pər)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   tem·pered, tem·per·ing, tem·pers

v.   tr.
  1. To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate: "temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom" (Robert H. Jackson). See Synonyms at moderate.
  2. To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by or as if by blending, admixing, or kneading: temper clay; paints that had been tempered with oil.
  3. To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.
  4. To strengthen through experience or hardship; toughen: soldiers who had been tempered by combat.
  5. To adjust finely; attune: a portfolio that is tempered to the investor's needs.
  6. Music To adjust (the pitch of an instrument) to a temperament.

v.   intr.
To be or become tempered.

n.  
  1. A state of mind or emotions; disposition: an even temper. See Synonyms at mood1.
  2. Calmness of mind or emotions; composure: lose one's temper.
    1. A tendency to become easily angry or irritable: a quick temper.
    2. An outburst of rage: a fit of temper.
    3. The condition of being tempered.
    4. The degree of hardness and elasticity of a metal, chiefly steel, achieved by tempering.
  4. A characteristic general quality; tone: heroes who exemplified the medieval temper; the politicized temper of the 1930s.
    1. The condition of being tempered.
    2. The degree of hardness and elasticity of a metal, chiefly steel, achieved by tempering.
  6. A modifying substance or agent added to something else.
  7. Archaic A middle course between extremes; a mean.


[Middle English temperen, from Old English temprian, from Latin temperāre, probably from variant of tempus, tempor-, time, season.]

tem'per·a·bil'i·ty n., tem'per·a·ble adj., tem'per·er n.
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tem·pered    Audio Help   (těm'pərd)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Having a specified temper or disposition. Often used in combination: sweet-tempered; ill-tempered.
  2. Adjusted or attuned by the addition of a counterbalancing element; moderated or measured: "prepare the country to expect hard choices and to appreciate tempered values and moderation in private and public life" (Haynes Johnson).
  3. Made appropriately hard or flexible by tempering: a sword of tempered steel.
  4. Having the requisite degree of hardness or elasticity. Used of glass or a metal.
  5. Music Tuned to temperament. Used of a scale, an interval, semitone, or intonation.

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tempered

adjective
1. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" [ant: unhardened] 
2. adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element; "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy" [ant: untempered] 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
-tempered
having a (certain) state of mind
Example: good-tempered; mean-tempered; sweet-tempered
Arabic: ذو مِزاج، ذو طَبْع
Chinese (Simplified): …脾气的
Chinese (Traditional): …脾氣的
Czech: naložený
Danish: behagelig; ubehagelig
Dutch: ©gehumeurd
Estonian: -loomuline, -tujuline
Finnish: luonteinen, tuulinen
French: au caractère (…)
German: gestimmt
Greek: -διάθετος (ως β΄ συνθ.)
Hungarian: vmilyen kedélyű
Icelandic: -lyndur
Indonesian: berperangai
Italian: dal carattere (…)*
Japanese: －気質の
Latvian: maiga rakstura-
Lithuanian: būdo, charakterio
Norwegian: -lynnet, av sinn
Polish: … usposobiony
Portuguese (Portugal): de (bom, etc.) feitio
Romanian: într-o dispoziţie (…)
Russian: характер
Slovak: naladený
Slovenian: ki je (…) volje
Spanish: de carácter…
Swedish: med … sinnelag (humör, natur)
Turkish: … huylu
See also: keep one's temper, lose one's temper, temper

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Tempered

Tem"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tempered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tempering.] [AS. temprian or OF. temper, F. temp['e]rer, and (in sense 3) temper, L. temperare, akin to tempus time. Cf. Temporal, Distemper, Tamper.]

1. 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.

Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system. --Bancroft.

Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. --Otway.

But thy fire Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher. --Byron.

She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colors. --Addison.

2. To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.

Thy sustenance . . . serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking. --Wisdom xvi. 21.

3. (Metal.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.

The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound. --Dryden.

4. To govern; to manage. [A Latinism & Obs.]

With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. --Spenser.

5. To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.

6. (Mus.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

Syn: To soften; mollify; assuage; soothe; calm.
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