distemper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
2. isim A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.

   “[…] and is the onlie laſt remedie for all debilities which haue long vexed the body through a hote diſtemper of the Lever, ſuch as a hote Gutte; it allayeth all Inflamations inward & outward.”

3. isim A glue-based paint.
4. isim A painting produced with this kind of paint.
5. fiil To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
6. fiil To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.

   “Guildenstern. The King, sir— Hamlet. Ay, sir, what of him? Guildenstern. Is in his retirement, marvellous distemper’d. Hamlet. With drink, sir? Guildenstern. No, my lord; rather with choler.”

7. fiil To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.

   “1799-1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Piccolomini by Friedrich Schiller, Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1902, p. 37, I have been long accustomed to defend you, To heal and pacify distempered spirits.”

8. fiil To intoxicate.

   “For the Courtiers reeling, And the Duke himselfe, (I dare not say distemperd, But kind, and in his tottering chaire carousing) They doe the countrie service.”

9. fiil To paint using distemper.

   “We cleaned out the cellars, fixed the shelves, distempered the walls, polished the woodwork, whitewashed the ceiling, stained the floor;”

10. fiil To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.

    “to distemper colors with size”