1to mix, stir together (a liquid):
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Quant P. ot fet le boivere
destemprer E le tendy au roy, [...]
2812
♦
pharm.med.to brew, prepare (a potion):
(
s.xiiex;
MS: s.xiii3/3?
)
Enchanté es, si as beu l'esterlie De quei cil mirie destenprent l'esturdie
=sleeping potion
1209
2to steep in or dissolve by means of a liquid:
(
s.xii1/3;
MS: s.xiiex
)
galactide [...]; O aiue s’el est destempree La mandre dedenz arosee, Les berbiz lait asez avront
60.779
(
s.xii2/4;
MS: c.1200
)
Cecolitus [...] si hom la
destrempet od ewe et dunet a beivre [...]
109.XLII.2
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Granz portes i fist fere [...]. De butemay les fist trestotes engluer. Arme nes put percer ne ewe
destemprer
6558
(
s.xiii2;
MS: s.xiii2
)
A malade qui ne poet dormir,
destempre la coriandre od vin
135.28
(
MS: s.xvin
)
pur chaude ydropesy homme doit [...] moldrere les vermes e
distemperez eux od ewe benet
ii 8
(
MS: c.1325
)
lé fettez estamper en un morter e
dettemprer ow un poy de bone vinegre
113.269
(
MS: s.xv
)
de cel confeccioun pernez la quantité de une grosse avellane e la fetes destemprier ové vyn
171.E617
3colourto distemper, prepare (a colour, paint dye, etc.) by mixing pigments with binding agents in water:
(
s.xiim;
MS: s.xiim
)
Ki vuldrat
destempreir vermellun prenget un of [...]
206
(
MS: 1250-1350
) Pernez la flambre id est gladen, e triblez ben la foile; e pernez le jus, e medlez cel ensemble od vincole. E de ço destemprez vostre vert
161v
4
to disturb, disorder ,upset:
(
c.1275;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Le truboyl de vye mundeyne […] la pes denszeyne […] sovent
destempre
5531
1pharm.med.to mix (with a liquid):
(
c.1240;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Pernez le test de grand nois e metez en pudre od fulugine e od crote de chaifre e
desstemprez od saim [...]
i 87
(
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Pernez drasche de oylle et arnement [...] et
destemprez ensemble
113.7
(
MS: c.1300
)
Pernez semence de ache [...]. E
destemprez o
(l) le blanc de l’oef [...]. Pus fetes tente [...] e moillez cele tente en la
destemperure
315.5
2
pharm.med.
to steep in or dissolve by means of a liquid:
(
MS: s.xiiim
)
poudrez tot et
destemprez de bon vin
83
(
s.xiim;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
Jo vi asquanz ki
destemprerent les perles, si en laverent les taches blaunches del cors, si s’en alerent
108.17
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiiim
)
la compunctiun hoche le quor e rince de la rusee, tant ke l’ordure des pecchiez [...]
destempre e esloce des funz
i 17
3
colour
to distemper, prepare a colour by mixing pigments with binding agents in water:
(
s.xiii1;
MS: c.1300
) [...] e quant vus volez destemprer, pernez un autre eschale petite, si metez enz del rosin od le pincel [...]
53.vii
1med.upsetting to the proper balance of the humours:
(
c.1270;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Medicine dunc prendre deit. Meske trop destemprant ne seit
2117
1
culin.
moistened, drizzled, steeped:
(
MS: s.xiii1
)
Auca domestica, dummodo sit tenera, veru longo circumvoluta, aliatam fortem desiderat, cum vino vel viridi succo racemorum vel pomorum silvestrium distemperatam
gloss: deçtempré
i 183.67 and ii 99.67
2
unbalanced, unhinged:
(
1194-99;
MS: s.xiii2
) La bataille [...] Si cruel e [si] destempree, Que si Deus ne’ eust sustenue Nostre gent, mar [i] fust venue
11602
♦
meteo.
(of climate) distempered, unbalanced:
(
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Cele terra est mot sabelenuse e ne porte fors busuns e tere destempree, en yfern trop freid, en esté trop chaude
125
♦
med.distempered, with one's humours unbalanced:
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiii2
)
Dunc
(=after over-eating and lechery) est la char si destrempee Ki des tuz mals est enflambee
118vb36
(
c.1259;
MS: c.1259
) Sarrazins sanz lei e fei e peis, e mut sunt chaudes e destemprees
168
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