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that may be collected from spots in our nails, we concede. 
Brown. —Intellectual representations are received with as un¬ 
equal a fate upon a bare temperamental relish or disgust. 
Glanville. 
TE'MPERANCE, s. [temperantia, Lat.] Moderation: 
opposed to gluttony and drunkenness. 
Observe 
The rule of not too much; by temperance taught 
In what thou eat’st and drink’st; seeking from thence 
Due nourishment, no gluttonous delight. Milton. 
Patience; calmness; sedateness; moderation of passion. 
What, are you chaf’d ? 
Ask God for temperance, that’s the appliance only 
Which your disease requires. Sha/cspeare. 
TEMPERATE, adj. [temperatus, Lat.] Not exces¬ 
sive; moderate in degree of any quality. 
His sleep 
Was airy, light, from pure digestion bred. 
And temperate vapours bland. Milton. 
Moderate in meat and drink.—I advised him to be tem¬ 
perate in eating and drinking. Wiseman. —Free from ar¬ 
dent passion. 
So hot a speed with such advice dispos’d; 
Such temperate order in so fierce a course 
Doth want example. Sha/cspeare. 
TE'MPERATELY, adv. Moderately; not excessively. 
By winds that temperately blow. 
The bark should pass secure and slow. Addison. 
Calmly; without violence of passion. 
Temperately proceed to what you would 
Thus violently redress. Sha/cspeare. 
Without gluttony or luxury.—God esteems it a part of his 
service if we eat or drink; so it be temperately, and as may 
best preserve health. Bp. Taylor. 
TEMPERATENESS, s. Freedom from excesses; me¬ 
diocrity.—Calmness; coolness of mind. 
Langley’s mild temperateness. 
Did tend unto a calmer quietness. Daniel. 
TE'MPERATIVE, adj. Having power to temper.— 
Living creatures are not only fed by the root of the stomach, 
but by the air drawn in and sent forth by the breath, which 
is temperative of the heart’s heat, nutritive of the animal and 
vital spirits, and purgative of unnatural vapours. Granger. 
TEMPERATURE, s. [ temperatura, tempera, Lat.; 
temperature, Fr.] Constitution of nature; degree of any 
qualities.—Memory depends upon the consistence and the 
temperature of the brain. Watts. —Mediocrity; due ba¬ 
lance of contrarieties. 
As the world’s sun doth effects beget 
Different, in divers places every day; 
Here autumn’s temperature, there summer’s heat, 
Here flowery spring-tide, and there winter gray. Davies. 
Moderation; freedom from predominant passion. 
In that proud port which her so goodly graceth, 
Most goodly temperature you may descry. Spenser. 
TEMPERED, adj. Disposed with regard to the pas¬ 
sions. 
When was my lord so much ungently tempered. 
To stop his ears against admonishment? Sha/cspeare. 
TE'MPEST, s. [ tempeste, Fr.; tempestas, Lat.] The 
utmost violence of the wind ; the names by which the wind 
is called according to the gradual encrease of its force seem 
to be, a breeze; a gale; a gust; a storm; a tempest. 
I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds 
Have riv’d the knotty oaks. Sha/cspeare. 
Any tumult; commotion; perturbation. 
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The terhpest in my mind 
Doth from my senses take all feeling else, 
Save what beats there. Sha/cspeare. 
To TE'MPEST, v. n. [tempestare, Ital.] To storm.— 
Blind night in darkness tempests. Sandys. —To pour a 
tempest on. 
Other princes- 
Thunder and tempest on those learned heads, 
Whom Caesar with such honour doth advance. B. .Tonson. 
To TE'MPEST, v. a. To disturb as by a tempest. 
Part huge of bulk. 
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, 
Tempest the ocean. Milton. 
TE'MPEST-BEATEN, adj. Shattered with storms. 
In the calm harbour of her gentle breast, 
My tempest-beaten soul may safely rest. Drydcn. 
TE'MPEST-TOST, adj. Driven about by storms. 
Though his bark cannot be lost, 
Yet it shall be tempest-tost. Sha/cspeare. 
TEMPESTA (Antonio), was an ingenious designer and 
painter, born at Florence in 1555, and was initiated in the 
art by Santi di Titi; afterwards he studied under another 
artist, whose name was Stradanus. Tempesta was gifted 
with a brilliant and powerful imagination, not, however, of 
the most correct or exalted kind. Hij favourite subjects 
were battles, sieges, cavalcades, huntings, processions, &c.: 
all of which he arranged and designed in a novel and rich 
style, and executed with uncommon spirit and energy. He 
was employed by Gregory XIII. in the Vatican, which he 
adorned with grotesque inventions, and some few historical 
productions. He was also employed by the marchese Justi- 
niani in decorating his palace; and in several of the churches 
of Rome, Tempesta’s paintings may be found. He not only 
exercised his genius and time with the pencil, but devoted 
much of both to the etching needle; having left behind him 
nearly 1800 plates of different kinds, and of very consider¬ 
able merit. He died in 1630, aged 75. 
TEMPE'STIVE, adj. [tempestivus, Lat.] Seasonable. 
Scott. 
TEMPE'STIVELY, adv. Seasonably. — Dancing is a 
pleasant recreation of body and mind, if tempestively used. 
Burton. 
TEMPESTI'VITY, s. [tempestivus, Lat.] Seasonable¬ 
ness.—Since their dispersion, the constitution of countries 
admit not such tempestivity of harvest. Brown. 
TEMPE'STUOUS, adj. \tempestueux, Fr.] Stormy; 
turbulent. 
Which of them rising with the sun or falling 
Should prove tempestuous. Milton. 
TEMPE'STUOUSLY, adv. Turbulently; as in a tem¬ 
pest.—Thunderbolts so tempestuously shot. Hammond. 
TEMPE'STUOUSNESS, s. The state of being tempes¬ 
tuous. 
TEMPIO, a small town in the island of Sardinia, with a 
collegiate church, a college of Piarists, and 5000 inhabitants; 
32 miles east of Sassari 
TE'MPLAR, s. [from the Temple, an house near the 
Thames, anciently belonging to the knights -templars, ori¬ 
ginally from the temple of Jerusalem.] A student in the 
law. 
Wits and templars every sentence raise, 
And wonder with a foolish face of praise. Pope. 
TEMPLARS, Templers, or Knights of the Temple, a 
religious military order, first established at Jerusalem, in 
favour of pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land. 
The original of this order, the first military one in the 
world, is this: in 1118, some pious and noble persons de¬ 
voted themselves to the service of God, in the presence of 
the patriarch of Jerusalem; promising to live in perpetual 
chastity, obedience, and poverty, after the manner of canons. 
The 
