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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