Obs. [ad. L. attemperātus, pa. pple. of attemperāre: see above, and cf. the earlier ATTEMPRE.]
1. Temperate, moderate, well-regulated.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pers. T., ¶ 407 (Tyrwhitt). Attemperat [v.r. attempree] speche.
1477. Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 36. Be attemperate at thy mete.
1534. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546), H ij. This good emperoure was … attemperate in his exercyses.
2. Of climate, etc.: Temperate, equable, mild.
c. 1300. St. Brandan, 55. The londe Attemperate ne to hote ne to colde.
1480. Caxton, Descr. Brit., 47. The attemperate hete and colde that is therein.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. lxxx. (1812), 241 (R.). They shall not fynde the ayre soo attemperate there as in Englande.
3. Well-proportioned.
1485. Caxton, Chas. Gt., 198. Hyr mouth was wel composed with an attemperat roundenes.
