"distemper" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /dɪsˈtɛmpə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-distemper.wav [Southern-England] Forms: distempers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛmpə(ɹ) Etymology: From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare. Etymology templates: {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|fro|destemprer}} Old French destemprer, {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|la|distemperare}} Latin distemperare Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} distemper (countable and uncountable, plural distempers)
  1. (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Pathology, Veterinary medicine
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-noun-vN~SSHXr Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, sciences, veterinary, zoology
  2. (archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Translations (disease): разстройство (razstrojstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), неразположение (nerazpoloženie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), Staupe [feminine] (German), szopornyica (Hungarian), conslaod [masculine] (Irish), cimurro [masculine] (Italian), morbus [masculine] (Latin), Hunjskrankheit [feminine] (Plautdietsch), чу́мка (čúmka) (Russian), valpsjuka [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-noun-82BV1Snv Disambiguation of 'disease': 21 79 0 0
  3. A glue-based paint. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (paint): темперна боя (temperna boja) [feminine] (Bulgarian), tempera [feminine] (Italian), те́мпера (témpera) (Russian), limfärg [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-noun--nOHG5fu Disambiguation of 'paint': 0 0 62 38
  4. (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-noun-5D02O1eN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: canine distemper, canine distemper virus, sleepy distemper, throat distemper

Verb

IPA: /dɪsˈtɛmpə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-distemper.wav [Southern-England] Forms: distempers [present, singular, third-person], distempering [participle, present], distempered [participle, past], distempered [past], distemper [infinitive]
Rhymes: -ɛmpə(ɹ) Etymology: From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare. Etymology templates: {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|fro|destemprer}} Old French destemprer, {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|la|distemperare}} Latin distemperare Head templates: {{en-verb}} distemper (third-person singular simple present distempers, present participle distempering, simple past and past participle distempered) Inflection templates: {{en-conj|old=1}}
  1. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-verb-A23crAyp
  2. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-verb-1gnZ6aYy
  3. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-verb-uQcASQUq
  4. To intoxicate.
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-verb-iXNtDVyd
  5. To paint using distemper.
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-verb-6DZdaQCD
  6. To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-verb-hkYTykrQ

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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razstrojstvo",
      "sense": "disease",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "разстройство"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nerazpoloženie",
      "sense": "disease",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "неразположение"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "disease",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Staupe"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "disease",
      "word": "szopornyica"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "disease",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "conslaod"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "disease",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cimurro"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "disease",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "morbus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "disease",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hunjskrankheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čúmka",
      "sense": "disease",
      "word": "чу́мка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "disease",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "valpsjuka"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "temperna boja",
      "sense": "paint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "темперна боя"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "paint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tempera"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "paint",
      "word": "те́мпера"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "paint",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "limfärg"
    }
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    "distemper"
  ],
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}

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        }
      ],
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        "To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease."
      ]
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        {
          "text": "1799-1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Piccolomini by Friedrich Schiller, Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1902, p. 37,\nI have been long accustomed to defend you,\nTo heal and pacify distempered spirits."
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
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        "To mix (colours) in the way of distemper."
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