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adjective

Temperate adj.

Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.

Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. "She is not hot, but temperate as the morn." "That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings."

Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking. "Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy."

Proceeding from temperance. (R.) "The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air."

Temperate zone (Geog.), that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.

Synonyms: Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.

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... never invented any effectual weapons of defence, or of destruction; they appear incapable of forming any extensive plans of government, or conquest; and the obvious inferiority of their mental faculties has been discovered and abused by the nations of the temperate zone. Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains; and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... predominant motive only in regard to the acquisition of tropical lands. So long as Europe continued to be able to produce as much as she needed of the food and the raw materials for industry that her soil and climate were capable of yielding, the commercial motive for acquiring territories in the temperate zone, which could produce only commodities of the same type, was comparatively weak; and the European settlements in these areas, which we have come to regard as the most important products of the imperialist movement, must in their origin and early ...

— The Expansion of Europe - The Culmination of Modern History • Ramsay Muir

... springs up in a single spot among the beeches and alders, is there not as much reason to think the perfumed flower of imaginative genius will find it hard to be born and harder to spread its leaves in the clear, cold atmosphere of our ultra-temperate zone of humanity? ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

... which renders them less prolific than the tropical regions, as exemplified by the great distance beyond the tropics to which tropical forms penetrate when the climate is equable, and also by the richness in species and forms of tropical mountain regions which principally differ from the temperate zone in the uniformity of their climate. However this may be, it seems a fair assumption that during a period of geological repose the new species which we know to have been created would have appeared; that the creations ...

— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace

... are unloaded from the steamers and sailing vessels; and yet they deserve special attention and admiration, for they are to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, what bread and potatoes are to those of the north temperate zone. ...

— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

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