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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Distemper \Dis*tem"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distempered}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Distempering}.] [OF. destemprer, destremper, to
   distemper, F. d['e]tremper to soak, soften, slake (lime);
   pref. des- (L. dis-) + OF. temprer, tremper, F. tremper, L.
   temperare to mingle in due proportion. See {Temper}, and cf.
   {Destemprer}.]
   1. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to
      change the due proportions of. [Obs.]

            When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered.
                                                  --Chaucer.

   2. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or
      spiritual; to disorder; to disease. --Shak.

            The imagination, when completely distempered, is the
            most incurable of all disordered faculties.
                                                  --Buckminster.

   3. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle;
      to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.
      ``Distempered spirits.'' --Coleridge.

   4. To intoxicate. [R.]

            The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare
            not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering
            chair carousing.                      --Massinger.

   5. (Paint.) To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to
      distemper colors with size. [R.]

Distemper \Dis*tem"per\, n. [See {Distemper}, v. t., and cf.
   {Destemprer}.]
   1. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture
      of parts. --Bacon.

   Note: This meaning and most of the following are to be
         referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four
         ``humors'' in man. See {Humor}. According to the old
         physicians, these humors, when unduly tempered, produce
         a disordered state of body and mind.

   2. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.
      [Obs.]

            Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a
            distemper uninhabitable.              --Sir W.
                                                  Raleigh.

   3. A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition;
      malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to
      diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse
      distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.

            They heighten distempers to diseases. --Suckling.

   4. Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion
      or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
      [Obs.]

            Little faults proceeding on distemper. --Shak.

            Some frenzy distemper had got into his head.
                                                  --Bunyan.

   5. Political disorder; tumult. --Waller.

   6. (Paint.)
      (a) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the
          pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or
          size (cf. {Tempera}) instead of oil, usually for scene
          painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.
      (b) A painting done with this preparation.

   Syn: Disease; disorder; sickness; illness; malady;
        indisposition; ailment. See {Disease}.

資料來源 : WordNet®

distemper
     n 1: any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
     2: an angry and disagreeable mood [syn: {ill humor}, {ill
        humour}] [ant: {good humor}]
     3: paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
     4: a painting created by distemper
     5: a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with
        water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or
        stage scenery
     v : paint with distemper