See contemperate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "See contemper.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "contemperates",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "contemperating",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "contemperated",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "contemperated",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "contemperate (third-person singular simple present contemperates, present participle contemperating, simple past and past participle contemperated)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 3 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
12,
24
]
],
"ref": "1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Moisten and contemperate the air.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
107,
121
]
],
"ref": "1652, E. Sparke, Scintillula Altaris:",
"text": "Saint Peter[…]after some experience of humane Frailty, becometh[…]A Rock of Christianity; both as it were, Contemperating the gladness and sadness of each other.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
44,
56
]
],
"ref": "1656, R. Sanderson, 20 Sermons:",
"text": "Either part being ready for charity sake to contemperate and accommodate themselves to other.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
3,
15
]
],
"ref": "1705, F. Fuller, Medicina Gymnastica:",
"text": "To contemperate the Acrimony of the Blood.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To temper; to moderate."
],
"id": "en-contemperate-en-verb-sffU4HLw",
"links": [
[
"temper",
"temper"
],
[
"moderate",
"moderate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, transitive) To temper; to moderate."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "contemperation"
}
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "contemperate"
}
{
"etymology_text": "See contemper.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "contemperates",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "contemperating",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "contemperated",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "contemperated",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "contemperate (third-person singular simple present contemperates, present participle contemperating, simple past and past participle contemperated)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "contemperation"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
12,
24
]
],
"ref": "1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Moisten and contemperate the air.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
107,
121
]
],
"ref": "1652, E. Sparke, Scintillula Altaris:",
"text": "Saint Peter[…]after some experience of humane Frailty, becometh[…]A Rock of Christianity; both as it were, Contemperating the gladness and sadness of each other.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
44,
56
]
],
"ref": "1656, R. Sanderson, 20 Sermons:",
"text": "Either part being ready for charity sake to contemperate and accommodate themselves to other.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
3,
15
]
],
"ref": "1705, F. Fuller, Medicina Gymnastica:",
"text": "To contemperate the Acrimony of the Blood.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To temper; to moderate."
],
"links": [
[
"temper",
"temper"
],
[
"moderate",
"moderate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, transitive) To temper; to moderate."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "contemperate"
}
Download raw JSONL data for contemperate meaning in English (2.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.