distemperate

First attested in 1398, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English distemperat(e), borrowed from Medieval Latin distemperātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + temperātus, perfect passive participle of temperō (“to temperate oneself, show restraint”).

distemperate (comparative more distemperate, superlative most distemperate) (obsolete)

1. Immoderate, excessive.
   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     there is any inconvenience or distemperate heat found

     Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.

2. (of the weather, air or elements) Not temperate, of no good influence for one's confort or soundness; (figuratively) unwholesome, stormy.
3. (in the obsoleted theory of humours) Not properly tempered; disordered through excess or deficiency of some constituent; (by extensions, of bodily or mental condition) disordered, out of order; diseased, out of health; ill-conditioned.

• “distemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• premeditates