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Distemperature

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Dis`tem´per`a`ture
n.1.Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air.
2.Disorder; confusion.
3.Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper.
A huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures and foes to life.
- Shak.
4.Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.
Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his distemperature.
- Sir W. Scott.
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And through this distemperature, we see The season's alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose And on old Hiems' chinne and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery set; the spring the summer, The chiding autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, By their increase, not knows not which is which.
The Fey Beauty of A Midsummer Night's Dream: a Shakespearean comedy ... by Conlan, J.P. / Shakespeare Studies
Line 514 distemperature ] distempered condition; perhaps, ironically, loss of sexual heat.
The text of "A Funeral Elegy" by W. S by Shakespeare, William / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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