Meaning of attemper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
2. To mitigate, assuage.
3. To regulate, arrange, organise.
   archaic

Examples

“But we must add, that she did say, by way of attempering her pleasure: "Well! I must say I never saw a finer young man in my life—indeed I don’t know that the court of Great Britain quite boasts his equal...”

“Thus fairely she attempered her feast, / And pleasd them all with meete satietie [...].”

“They tempt no conflict, no revenge provoke, But meet oppression in its daring course, With wisdom's ample shield, of Heaven attemper'd force.”

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