English-Thai Dictionary

distemper

N โรคติดเชื้อ ของ สัตว์ (โดยเฉพาะ สุนัข และ แมว  disease rok-tid-chuea-kong-sad

 

distemperature

N อารมณ์ ผิดปกติ 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISTEMPER

n.[dis and temper. ] 1. Literally, an undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Hence,
2. Disease; malady; indisposition; any morbid state of an animal body, or of any part of it; a state in which the animal economy is deranged or imperfectly carried on. [See Disease. ] It is used of the slighter disease, but not exclusively. In general, it is synonymous with disease, and is particularly applied to the diseases of brutes.
3. Want of due temperature, applied to climate; the literal sense of the word, but not now used.
Countries under the tropic of a distemper uninhabitable.
4. Bad constitution of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite.
5. Want of due balance of parts or opposite qualities and principles; as, the temper and distemper of an empire consist of contraries. [Not now used. ]
6. Ill humor of mind; depravity of inclination. [Not used. ]
7. Political disorder; tumult.
8. Uneasiness; ill humor or bad temper.
There is a sickness, which puts some of us in distemper.
9. In painting, the mixing of colors with something besides oil and water. When colors are mixed with size, whites of eggs, or other unctuous or glutinous matter, and not with oil, it is said to be done in distemper.

 

DISTEMPER

v.t. 1. To disease; to disorder; to derange the functions of the body or mind.
2. To disturb; to ruffle.
3. To deprive of temper or moderation.
4. To make disaffected, ill humored or malignant. This verb is seldom used, except in the participles.

 

DISTEMPERANCE

n.Distemperature.

 

DISTEMPERATE

a.Immoderate. [Little used. ]

 

DISTEMPERATURE

n. 1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; a noxious state; as the distemperature of the air of climate.
2. Violent tumultuousness; outrageousness.
3. Perturbation of mind.
4. Confusion; commixture of contrarieties; loss of regularity; disorder.
5. Slight illness; indisposition.

 

DISTEMPERED

pp. or a. 1. Diseased in body, or disordered in mind. We speak of a distempered body, a distempered limb, a distempered head or brain.
2. Disturbed; ruffled; as distempered passions.
3. Deprived of temper or moderation; immoderate; as distempered zeal.
4. Disordered; biased; prejudiced; perverted; as minds distempered by interest or passion.
The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
5. Disaffected; made malevolent.
Distempered lords.

 

DISTEMPERING

ppr. Affecting with disease or disorder; disturbing; depriving of moderation.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DISTEMPER

Dis *tem "per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distempered; p. pr. & vb. n.Distempering. ] Etym: [OF. destemprer, destremper, to distemper, F. détremper to soak, soften, slake (lime ); pref. des- (L. dis- ) + OF. temprer, tremper, F. tremper, L. temperare to mingle in due proportion. See Temper, and cf. Destemprer.]

 

1. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. [Obs. ] When. .. the humors in his body ben distempered. Chaucer.

 

2. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.

 

3. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. "Distempered spirits. " Coleridge.

 

4. To intoxicate. [R.] The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. Massinger.

 

5. (Paint. )

 

Defn: To mix (colors ) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size. [R.]

 

DISTEMPER

Dis *tem "per, n. Etym: [See Distemper, v. t., and cf. Destemprer.]

 

1. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Bacon.

 

Note: This meaning and most of the following are to be referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four "humors " in man. See Humor. According to the old physicians, these humors, when unduly tempered, produce a disordered state of body and mind.

 

2. Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. [Obs. ] Those countries... under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable. Sir W. Raleigh.

 

3. A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle. They heighten distempers to diseases. Suckling.

 

4. Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor. [Obs. ] Little faults proceeding on distemper. Shak. Some frenzy distemper had got into his head. Bunyan.

 

5. Political disorder; tumult. Waller.

 

6. (Paint. ) (a ) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera ) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.(b ) A painting done with this preparation.

 

Syn. -- Disease; disorder; sickness; illness; malady; indisposition; ailment. See Disease.

 

DISTEMPERANCE

DISTEMPERANCE Dis *tem "per *ance, n.

 

Defn: Distemperature. [Obs. ]

 

DISTEMPERATE

Dis *tem "per *ate, a. Etym: [LL. distemperatus, p. p.]

 

1. Immoderate. [Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh.

 

2. Diseased; disordered. [Obs. ] Wodroephe.

 

DISTEMPERATELY

DISTEMPERATELY Dis *tem "per *ate *ly, adv.

 

Defn: Unduly. [Obs. ]

 

DISTEMPERATURE

DISTEMPERATURE 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. [Obs. ]

 

2. Disorder; confusion. Shak.

 

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.

 

DISTEMPERMENT

DISTEMPERMENT Dis *tem "per *ment, n.

 

Defn: Distempered state; distemperature. [Obs. ] Feltham.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

distemper

dis tem per 1 |disˈtempər dɪˈstempər | ▶noun 1 a viral disease of some animals, esp. dogs, causing fever, coughing, and catarrh. 2 archaic political disorder: an attempt to illuminate the moral roots of the modern world's distemper. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (originally in the sense ‘bad temper, ’ later ‘illness ’): from Middle English distemper ‘upset, derange, ’ from late Latin distemperare ‘soak, mix in the wrong proportions, ’ from dis- ‘thoroughly ’ + temperare ‘mingle. ’ Compare with temper. Sense 1 dates from the mid 18th cent.

 

distemper

dis tem per 2 |dɪˈstempər disˈtempər | ▶noun a kind of paint using glue or size instead of an oil base, for use on walls or for scene-painting. • a method of mural and poster painting using this. ▶verb [ with obj. ] (often as adj. distempered ) paint (something ) with distemper: the distempered roof timbers. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally as a verb in the senses ‘dilute ’ and ‘steep ’): from Old French destemprer or late Latin distemperare ‘soak. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

distemper

distemper 1 |dɪˈstɛmpə | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 a viral disease of some animals, especially dogs, causing fever, coughing, and catarrh. 2 archaic political disorder: an attempt to illuminate the moral roots of the modern world's distemper. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (originally in the sense ‘bad temper ’, later ‘illness ’): from Middle English distemper ‘upset, derange ’, from late Latin distemperare ‘soak, mix in the wrong proportions ’, from dis- ‘thoroughly ’ + temperare ‘mingle ’. Compare with temper. Sense 1 dates from the mid 18th cent.

 

distemper

distemper 2 |dɪˈstɛmpə | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a kind of paint using glue or size instead of an oil base, for use on walls or for scene-painting. • a method of mural and poster painting using distemper. ▶verb [ with obj. ] (often as adj. distempered ) paint with distemper: the distempered roof timbers. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally as a verb in the senses ‘dilute ’ and ‘steep ’): from Old French destremper or late Latin distemperare ‘soak ’.

 

distempered

dis |tem ¦pered ▶adjective literary emotionally or psychologically disturbed. • symptomatic of a general moral and psychological debility: this distempered fog, this old corruption of the nation.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

distemper

dis tem per 1 /dɪstémpə r /名詞 U 1 〘獣医 〙ジステンパー 〘イヌなどの伝染病 〙; 腺疫 （せんえき ）病 〘ウマの伝染病 〙.2 (心身の )不調, 病気, 異常 .3 (政治的 社会的 )不安, 無秩序, 騒動 .

 

distemper

dis tem per 2 名詞 ｟英 ｠1 U 泥絵の具 ; (壁 天井用として用いられる )水性塗料 .2 U ジステンパー画法 〘泥絵の具で壁絵やポスターを描く 〙; C ジステンパー画 .動詞 他動詞 …を泥絵の具で描く ; 〈壁や天井 〉を水性塗料で塗る .