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Word Meanings - INTEMPERANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Intemperate. Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.

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  • INTEMPERANT
    Intemperate. Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.
  • INTEMPERATENESS
    1. The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking. 2. Severity of weather; inclemency. Boyle. By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors. Sir M.
  • INTEMPERATELY
    In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint. The people . . . who behaved very unwisely and intemperately on that occasion. Burke.
  • NAUGHTY
    1. Having little or nothing. that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman. 2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. The other basket had very naughty figs. Jer. xxiv. 2. 3. hence, corrupt; wicked. So shines a good deed
  • THEIR
    The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
  • INTEMPERATE
    1. Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion. 2. Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors. 3. Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate
  • FEUDALLY
    In a feudal manner.

 

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