Obs. [f. L. contemperāt- ppl. stem of contemporāre: see above.]
1. trans. To blend together; to make into a blended whole.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 421/2. Having contemperated and distributed the Soul of Man, by the same proportions and powers.
2. = CONTEMPER 2.
1605. [see CONTEMPERANCE].
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. x. 326. The mighty Nile and Niger; which doe … moysten, and contemperate the ayre by their exhalations.
1652. Sparke, Prim. Devot. (1663), 504. Contemperating the gladness and sadness of each other.
1711. F. Fuller, Med. Gymn., 22. To contemperate the Acrimony of the Blood.
1766. Parsons, in Phil. Trans., LVI. 196. To contemperate and cool the agitated mass.
3. = CONTEMPER 3.
1656. Sanderson, Serm. (1689), 474. For charity sake to contemperate and accomodate themselves.
1660. Stillingfl., Iren., II. iv. § 3. To contemporate the Government of the Church to that of the State.
1713. Derham, Phys. Theol., II. iv. 46. Contemperating our own Bodies … so duly to that Distance [from the Sun].
Hence Contemperating vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1660. Stillingfl., Iren., II. vii. § 7. The contemperating the Ecclesiastical Government to the Civil.
1707. Sloane, Jamaica, I. p. cxxvii. I ordered him a contemperating cooling diet.
