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Attemper v. t. (past & past part. attempered; pres. part. attempering)

To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. "If sweet with bitter... were not attempered still."

To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.

To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice.

To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt. "Arts... attempered to the lyre." Note: This word is now not much used, the verb temper taking its place.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Attemper" Quotes from Famous Books

... earl himself for the advantage which he had lately received by following his own well-meant advice, in renewing with the queen "a treaty of obsequious kindness," which "did much attemper a cold malignant humor then growing upon her majesty towards him," he repeats his counsel that he should "win the queen;" adding, "if this be not the beginning of any other course, I see no end. And I will not now speak of favor or affection, but of other correspondence ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin