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.

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.