rare. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To endow with a temperament; in Temperamented, Temperamenting ppl. adjs.
1855. Emerson, Woman, Misc. (1884), 349. Men are not to the same degree temperamented. Ibid. (1870), Soc. & Solit., Work & Days, Wks. (Bohn), III. 70. The earth with its foods; the intellectual temperamenting air;… are given immeasurably to all.
Comb. 185[?]. G. G. Foster, New York Naked, 49. Do you see that thin, nervous, sanguine-temperamented man over yonder on the balcony side sofa, sitting beside a fine-looking woman, who is evidently still the pet of her lord and master.
