a. Now rare. [prob. ad. med.L. temperābil-is; but perh. f. TEMPER sb. and v. + -ABLE: cf. agreeable, customable, peaceable.] † a. Of weather or climate: = TEMPERATE a. 3. † b. Of a person: = TEMPERATE a. 1.

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c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 16. In somer he muste haue temperable eir.

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c. 1450.  Lovelich, Grail, xxxvi. 496. That he myhte beste herberwed to be, Into Most temperable place Abowtes þe see.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 4/18. Temperable, temperabilis.

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1618.  Bolton, Florus, I. viii. 30. That the fierce people might bee made temperable, through the feare of the Gods.

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1629.  Maxwell, trans. Herodian (1635), 31. Yet for a while, was the Prince more temperable, out of respect to his Fathers memory, and his Counsellours gravitie.

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  c.  That may be tempered or made plastic.

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1841.  Emerson, Ess., Hist., ¶ 44. The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals.

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  Hence Temperability (Funk’s Stand. Dict., 1895).

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