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adjective

Intemperate adj.

Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate in enjoyment or exertion.

Specifically, Addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.

Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather. "Most do taste through fond intemperate thirst." "Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing."

verb

Intemperate v. t. To disorder. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Intemperate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intemperate" Quotes from Famous Books

... with St. Mary's College, at Wilmington, died in the early part of February. He was dismissed from his station on account of intemperate habits, but continued his dissipation until reduced to the utmost destitution, wandering about homeless and friendless. He was discovered at length in an almost frozen state, in an old hovel, with a bottle of whiskey by his side, and soon died from the effects of his suffering. ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various

... English parties exerted these calm efforts against each other in parliamentary votes and debates, the French factions, inflamed to the highest degree of animosity, continued that cruel war which their intemperate zeal, actuated by the ambition of their leaders, had kindled in the kingdom. The admiral was successful in reducing the towns of Normandy which held for the king; but he frequently complained that the numerous garrison of Havre remained totally inactive, and was not employed in ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume

... continued the manager, "is a temperance drama. With what intemperate eagerness would the people flock to see it! But where is it to be found? Plays don't grow on bushes, even in this agricultural district. And I have yet to discover any dramatists hereabouts, unless"—jocularly—"you are a Tom Taylor or a Tom Robertson in disguise. Are you ...

— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham

... over the world; and in consequence there have appeared signs of a universal disruption which seems not far off. Faced with the possibility of such a disaster, which is sure to affect the successful peoples of the world in their intemperate prosperity, the great Powers of the West are seeking peace, not by curbing their greed, or by giving up the exclusive advantages which they have unjustly acquired, but by concentrating their ...

— Creative Unity • Rabindranath Tagore

... intemperate in the use of your intellectual forces, you will seek after foolish knowledge fail to benefit yourself, and give pain ...

— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

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