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able contempt of danger; without heed.—I have ventured, 
perhaps too temerariously, to contribute my mite to the 
learned world. Swift. 
TEME'RITY, s. [temerite, old French; temeritas, 
Lat.] Rashness; unreasonable contempt of danger.—With¬ 
out suspicion of temerity. More. 
TEMES, a navigable river of Hungary, in the bannat of 
Temesvar, which rises among the mountains of Wallachia, 
passes by the fortress of Temesvar, and after a winding course, 
falls into the Danube at Patschova, below Belgrade. Its 
course being through a level country, it frequently overflows 
its banks, and forms large marshes, particularly in the fron¬ 
tier districts. 
TEMESVAR, Banat, or Bannat of, a province in the 
south of Hungary, bounded by Transylvania, and by the 
great rivers the Marosch, the Theyss, and the Danube. Its 
extent is about 9450 square miles; its population above 
700,000. In the south-east it contains a range of high 
mountains, where pasturage and mining form the principal 
employment of its inhabitants; but the rest is level, and in 
many places marshy or sandy, though in general of great 
natural fertility, and only requiring to be well cultivated to 
make it one of the finest provinces in Europe. The inha¬ 
bitants are a mixture of most of the nations on the continent, 
but the Wallachians are most numerous. In 1779, the ban¬ 
nat was declared by the Austrian government to form part 
of Hungary, and divided into the three palatinates of Toron- 
tal, Temesvar, and Krassova, and into the military frontier 
district of Temesvar. 
TEMESVAR, a considerable town in the south of Hun¬ 
gary, the capital of the county of the same name, and one of 
the strongest .fortresses of the Austrian empire. To the town 
belongs a track of country, partly level, partly hilly, laid 
out in some measure in pasturage, but also in the culture of 
corn, flax, tobacco, and vines; 72 miles north-east of Bel¬ 
grade, and 160 south-east of Pest. Lat. 45. 47. 20. N. long. 
39. 5. 36. E. 
TEMESVAR, a palatinate of Hungary, occupying the 
central part of the bannat. Its area is 2460 square miles, 
with 244,000 inhabitants, composed of descendants of Mag¬ 
yars, Wallachians, Rascians, and German colonists. The 
chief town is Temesvar. 
TEMISCHBERG, a fortress of Asiatic Turkey, in the 
government of Caucasus ; 60 miles west of Stanropol. 
TEMISSA, a town of Fezzan, the first reached by the 
caravans from Cairo, after crossing the Lybian desert; 80 
miles east of Mourzouk. 
TEMMA, a small sea-port on the Gold Coast of Africa. 
Lat 5. 45. N. long. 0. 55. W. 
TEMNIKOV, a small town in the central part of Euro¬ 
pean Russia, in the government of Tambov, on the small river 
Mokscha, which is different from the Moskva. In the sur¬ 
rounding province is a number of Tartars, partly Mahome¬ 
tans, partly new converts to Christianity. The town has 
3300 inhabitants, and is 144 miles north-north-east of Tam¬ 
bov, and 250 east-south-east of Moscow. 
TEMOEL, a cape on the west coast of the island of 
Celebes, on the line. Long. 119. 25. E. 
TEMOGA, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy of 
Mexico, containing 445 families of Indians. 
TEMPE, Vale of, a valley of Greece, in Thessaly, ex¬ 
tending from east to west, and having the mountain range 
of Olympus on the north, and that of Ossa on the south. 
Through this valley the Peneus discharges its waters into the 
gulf of Salonica. It was much celebrated by the poets of 
antiquity. 
TEMPELBURG, a small town of Prussia, in Pomerania; 
67 miles north of New Stettin, and 17 east of Dramburg. 
Population 1700. 
To TE'MPER, v. a. [tempero, Lat., tempercr, Fr.] To 
mix so as that one part qualifies the other. 
I shall temper so 
Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most 
Them fully satisfy’d and Thee appease. Milton, 
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To compound ; to form by mixture; to qualify as an 
ingredient. 
If you could find out but a man 
To bear a poison, I would temper it; 
That Romeo should upon receipt thereof 
Soon sleep in quiet. Shakspeare. 
To mingle.—The good old knight, with a mixture of the 
father and master of the family, tempered the inquiries after 
his own affairs with kind questions relating to themselves. 
Addison. —To beat together to a proper consistence. 
Th’ uncivil kerns of Ireland are in aims, 
And temper clay with blood of Englishmen. Shakspeare. 
To accommodate; to modify.—Thy sustenance serving 
to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man’s 
liking. Wisd. —To bring to due proportion; to moderate 
excess. 
These soft fires with kindly heat. 
Of various influence foment and warm. 
Temper or nourish. Milton. 
To soften ; tomolify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm. 
Woman! Nature made thee 
To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Otway. 
To form metals to a proper degree of hardness. 
The sword 
Of Michael from the armoury of God 
Was given him temper'd so, that neither keen 
Nor solid might resist that edge. Milton. 
To govern. A latinism. 
With which the damned ghosts he governeth, 
And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. Spenser. 
TE'MPER, s. Due mixture of contrary qualities.— 
Health itself is but a kind of temper, gotten and preserved 
by a convenient mixture of contrarieties. Arbuthnot. —- 
Middle course; mean or medium.—If the estates of some 
bishops were exorbitant before the reformation, the present 
clergy’s wishes reach no further than that some reasonable 
temper had been used instead of paring them so quick. 
Swift. —Constitution of body. — This body-would be in¬ 
creased daily, being supplied from above and below, and 
having done growing, it would become more dry by de¬ 
grees, and of a temper of greater consistency and firmness. 
Burnet. —Disposition of mind. 
Remember with what mild 
And gracious temper he both heard, and judg’d, 
Without wrath or reviling. Milton. 
Constitutional frame of mind. 
Our hearts. 
Of brothers temper, do receive you in 
With all kind love. Shakspeare. 
Calmness of mind; moderation. 
Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, 
To fall with dignity, with temper rise. Pope. 
State to which metals are reduced, particularly as to hard¬ 
ness. 
Here draw I 
A sword, whose temper I intend to stain 
With the best blood that I can meet withal. Shakspeare. 
TE'MPERAMENT, s. {temperamentum, Lat.] Con¬ 
stitution ; state with respect to the predominance of any qua¬ 
lity.—Bodies are denominated hot and cold in proportion to 
the present temperament of that part of our body to which 
they are applied. Locke. —Medium; due mixture of oppo¬ 
sites.—The common law has wasted and wrought out those 
distempers, and reduced the kingdom to its just state and 
temperament. Hale. 
TEMPERAME'NTAL, adj. Constitutional.—That tem¬ 
peramental dignotions, and conjecture of prevalent humours, 
that 
