Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-TEM'PER-ATE
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CON-TEM'PER-ATE, v.t. [See Contemper.]
To temper; to reduce the quality of, by mixing something opposite or different; to moderate. – Brown. Wiseman.
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