ppl. a.; also 5 -prid, 6 -pred. [f. ATTEMPER + -ED.]
1. Qualified by due admixture; fitly blended.
1481. Caxton, Myrr., II. iv. 68. Two somers and two wynters … so attemprid that there is alway verdure.
1555. Fardle Facions, Pref. 13. Obscure and doubtfully attempred Responcions.
1866. Pusey, Mirac. Prayer, 15. His own all-wise laws of attempered justice and mercy.
2. Modified in temperature, equable, mild.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems, 3. The ayre attempered, the wyndes smowth and playne.
1730. Thomson, Autumn, 28. Attemper’d suns arise.
3. Of persons: Tempered in character, well-balanced, subdued, sober.
1474. Caxton, Chesse, 53. He was noble and wyse and more attempered than other.
1815. Southey, Roderick, xv. 23. Draw on with elevating influence … the attempered mind.
4. Suitably modified, harmonized, attuned.
1796. Coleridge, Poet. Wks. (1877), I. 157. Harmonize The attemper’d organ.
5. Of metals: Tempered. Also fig.
1852. Tennyson, Wellington, v. A man of well-attemper’d frame.
1864. Neale, Seaton. Poems, 9. Well-attemper’d sword.
† 6. Having temper or disposition; constituted.
1627. Feltham, Resolves, II. lxxii. (1677), 313. Nor can men so attempered, injoy themselves in all the smiles of Fortune.
