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Tempered (?), a. Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword.
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Temperer (?), n. One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
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Tempering, n. (Metal.) The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil.
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Coloq. Tempering color , the shade of color that indicates the degree of temper in tempering steel, as pale straw yellow for lancets, razors, and tools for metal; dark straw yellow for penknives, screw taps, etc.; brown yellow for axes, chisels, and plane irons; yellow tinged with purple for table knives and shears; purple for swords and watch springs; blue for springs and saws; and very pale blue tinged with green, too soft for steel instruments.
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Temper screw. 1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke.
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2. A set screw used for adjusting.
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Tempest (?), n. [OF. tempeste, F. tempête, (assumed) LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See of time.] 1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
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[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled,
Each on his rock transfixed. Milton.
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2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
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3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under , n., 4. [Archaic] Smollett.
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☞ Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like.
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Syn. -- Storm; agitation; perturbation. See .
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Tempest, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. tempêter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]
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Part huge of bulk
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean. Milton.
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Tempest, v. i. To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Tempestive (?), a. [L. tempestivus.] Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. [Obs.] Heywood. -- Tempestively, adv. [Obs.]
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Tempestivily (?), n. [L. tempestivitas.] The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Tempestuous (?), a. [L. tempestuous: cf. OF. tempestueux, F. tempêtueux.] Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. -- Tempestuously, adv. -- Tempestuousness, n.
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They saw the Hebrew leader,
Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard. Longfellow.
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Templar (?), n. [OE. templere, F. templier, LL. templarius. See a church.] 1. One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
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☞ The order was first limited in numbers, and its members were bound by vows of chastity and poverty. After the conquest of Palestine by the Saracens, the Templars spread over Europe, and, by reason of their reputation for valor and piety, they were enriched by numerous donations of money and lands. The extravagances and vices of the later Templars, however, finally led to the suppression of the order by the Council of Vienne in 1312.
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2. A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under . [Eng.]
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3. One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars.
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Templar, a. Of or pertaining to a temple. [R.]
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Solitary, family, and templar devotion. Coleridge.
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Template (?), n. Same as .
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Temple (?), n. [Cf. .] (Weaving) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
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Temple, n. [OF. temple, F. tempe, from L. tempora, tempus; perhaps originally, the right place, the fatal spot, supposed to be the same word as tempus, temporis, the fitting or appointed time. See of time, and cf. , , n.] 1. (Anat.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
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2. One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.
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Temple, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. � a piece of land marked off, land dedicated to a god: cf. F. témple, from the Latin. Cf. .] 1. A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India. “The temple of mighty Mars.” Chaucer.
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2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
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Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. John x. 23.
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3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.
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Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer? Buckminster.
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4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. “The temple of his body.” John ii. 21.
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Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Cor. iii. 16.
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The groves were God's first temples. Bryant.
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5. (Mormon Ch.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.
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6. A local organization of Odd Fellows.
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Coloq. Inner Temple , and Coloq. Middle Temple , two buildings, or ranges of buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple.
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Temple (?), v. t. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. [R.] Feltham.
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Templed (?), a. Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple.
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I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.
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Templet (?), n. [LL. templatus vaulted, from L. templum a small timber.] [Spelt also template.] 1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.
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2. (Arch.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.
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Tempo (?), n. [It., fr. L. tempus. See , n.] (Mus.) The rate or degree of movement in time.
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Coloq. A tempo giusto (j�st�) [It.], in exact time; -- sometimes, directing a return to strict time after a tempo rubato. -- Coloq. Tempo rubato . See under .
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Temporal (?), a. [L. temporalis, fr. tempora the temples: cf. F. temporal. See a part of the head.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
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Coloq. Temporal bone , a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal portion above the ear, corresponding to the squamosal and zygoma of the lower vertebrates, and a thickened basal petrosal and mastoid portion, corresponding to the periotic and tympanic bones of the lower vertebrates.
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Temporal (?), a. [L. temporalis, fr. tempus, temporis, time, portion of time, the fitting or appointed time: cf. F. temporel. Cf. , , , v. t., , a part of the head, , n., .] 1. Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
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The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Cor. iv. 18.
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Is this an hour for temporal affairs? Shak.
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2. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.
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Coloq. Lords temporal . See under , n. -- Coloq. Temporal augment . See the Note under , n.
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Syn. -- Transient; fleeting; transitory.
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Temporal, n. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden.
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He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell.
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Temporality (?), n.; pl. Temporalities (#). [L. temporalitas, in LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalité.] 1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.
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2. The laity; temporality. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
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3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; -- chiefly used in the plural.
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Supreme head, . . . under God, of the spirituality and temporality of the same church. Fuller.
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Temporally (?), adv. In a temporal manner; secularly. [R.] South.
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Temporalness, n. Worldliness. [R.] Cotgrave.
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Temporalty (?), n. [See .] 1. The laity; secular people. [Obs.] Abp. Abbot.
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2. A secular possession; a temporality.
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Temporaneous (?), a. [L. temporaneus happening at the right time, fr. tempus, temporis, time.] Temporarity. [Obs.] Hallywell.
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Temporarily (?), adv. In a temporary manner; for a time.
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Temporariness, n. The quality or state of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.
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Temporary (?), a. [L. temporarius, fr. tempus, temporis, time: cf. F. temporaire.] Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
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Temporary government of the city. Motley.
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Coloq. Temporary star . (Astron.) See under .
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Temporist (?), n. A temporizer. [Obs.]
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Why, turn a temporist, row with the tide. Marston.
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Temporization (?), n. [Cf. F. temporisation.] The act of temporizing. Johnson.
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Temporize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Temporized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Temporizing (?).] [F. temporiser. See of time.] 1. To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
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They might their grievance inwardly complain,
But outwardly they needs must temporize. Daniel.
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2. To delay; to procrastinate. [R.] Bacon.
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3. To comply; to agree. [Obs.] Shak.
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Temporizer (?), n. One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer.
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A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton.
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Temporizingly (?), adv. In a temporizing or yielding manner.
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Temporo- (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the temple, or temporal bone; as, temporofacial.
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Temporo-auricular (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.
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Temporofacial (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.
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Temporomalar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.
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Temporomaxillary (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
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Temps (?), n. [OF. & F., fr. L. tempus. See of time.] Time. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Tempse (?), n. See . [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Tempt (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tempting.] [OE. tempten, tenten, from OF. tempter, tenter, F. tenter, fr. L. tentare, temptare, to handle, feel, attack, to try, put to the test, urge, freq. from tendere, tentum, and tensum, to stretch. See , and cf. , , , a pavilion, to probe.] 1. To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.
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God did tempt Abraham. Gen. xxii. 1.
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Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God. Deut. vi. 16.
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2. To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.
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Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. James i. 14.
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3. To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.
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Tempt not the brave and needy to despair. Dryden.
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Nor tempt the wrath of heaven's avenging Sire. Pope.
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4. To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.
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Ere leave be given to tempt the nether skies. Dryden.
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Syn. -- To entice; allure; attract; decoy; seduce.
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Temptability (?), n. The quality or state of being temptable; lability to temptation.
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Temptable (?), a. Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted. Cudworth.
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Temptation (?), n. [OF. temptation, tentation, F. tentation, L. tentatio.] 1. The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
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When the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. Luke iv. 13.
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2. The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil.
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Lead us not into temptation. Luke xi. 4.
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3. That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil.
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Dare to be great, without a guilty crown;
View it, and lay the bright temptation down. Dryden.
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Temptationless, a. Having no temptation or motive; as, a temptationless sin. [R.] Hammond.
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Temptatious (?), a. Tempting. [Prov. Eng.]
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Tempter (?), n. One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. “Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on.” Tillotson.
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So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
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Tempting, a. Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Temptingly, adv. -- Temptingness, n.
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Temptress (?), n. A woman who entices.
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She was my temptress, the foul provoker. Sir W. Scott.
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Temse (?), n. [F. tamis, or D. tems, teems. Cf. .] A sieve. [Written also tems, and tempse.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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Coloq. Temse bread , Coloq. Temsed bread , Coloq. Temse loaf , bread made of flour better sifted than common fluor. [Prov. Eng.]
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{ Temulence (?), Temulency (?), } n. [L. temulentia.] Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [R.] “Their temulency.” Jer. Taylor.
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Temulent (?), a. [L. temulentus.] Intoxicated; drunken. [R.]
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Temulentive (?), a. Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink. [R.] R. Junius.
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Ten (tĕn), a. [AS. tēn, tién, tȳn, tēne; akin to OFries. tian, OS. tehan, D. tien, G. zehn, OHG. zehan, Icel. tīu, Sw. tio, Dan. ti, Goth. taíhun, Lith. deszimt, Russ. desiate, W. deg, Ir. & Gael. deich, L. decem, Gr. deka, Skr. daçan. √308. Cf. , , , , , , , .] One more than nine; twice five.
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With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea. Dryden.
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☞ Ten is often used, indefinitely, for several, many, and other like words.
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There 's a proud modesty in merit,
Averse from begging, and resolved to pay
Ten times the gift it asks. Dryden.
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