Obs. [ad. L. type *contemperāment-um, f. contemperāre (see above). Cf. temperament.] The action of contempering or condition of being contempered.
1565. Jewel, Def. Apol. (1611), 237. Now that God hath vnited vnto himselfe Flesh after an vnspeakable contemperament.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, III. 44. The equal contemperament of Vertue and Vices, so evenly matched.
1713. Derham, Phys. Theol., IV. viii. 165. There appears to be a Contemperament of their Motion with these Provisions.
