Definition of tempera

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Tempera (n.) A mode or process of painting; distemper.

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Spontaneous :: Spontaneous (a.) Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion..
Distemperance :: Distemperance (n.) Distemperature.
Dew-point :: Dew-point (n.) The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.
Observation :: Observation (n.) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc..
Crapulence :: Crapulence (n.) The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.
Idiocratical :: Idiocratical (a.) Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic.
Orchis :: Orchis (n.) A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous..
Intemperant :: Intemperant (a.) Intemperate.
Apostle :: Apostle (n.) The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance..
Apple :: Apple (n.) The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
Debauchee :: Debauchee (v. t.) One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
Puberty :: Puberty (n.) The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females..
Ebullioscope :: Ebullioscope (n.) An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils..
Crasis :: Crasis (n.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament..
Phosphorus :: Phosphorus (n.) A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for man
Intemperate :: Intemperate (v. t.) To disorder.
Equability :: Equability (n.) The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind..
Thermograph :: Thermograph (n.) An instrument for automatically recording indications of the variation of temperature.
Apricot :: Apricot (n.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone..
Autumn :: Autumn (n.) The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called the fall. Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November..
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