a. [f. TEMPERAMENT sb. + -AL.] Of or relating to the temperament (chiefly in sense 7); constitutional.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 18. By a temperamentall inactivity we are unready to put in execution the suggestions or dictates of reason.
1650. Charleton, Paradoxes, 139. The constitution or temperamentall disposition of the organ.
1772. J. M. Adair, Physic, 293. When owing to temperamental debility, it must be as permanent as its causes, which are generally insuperable.
1812. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1836), I. 381. These temperamental pro-virtues will too often fail.
1824. New Monthly Mag., XI. 321. In spite of her temperamental gaiety … she had moments of intense melancholy.
1856. Harriot K. Hunt, Glances & Glimpses, ix. 121. Pathology, so seldom taking into consideration idiosyncracies, temperamental conditions, age, or the state of the spiritual body, would have disheartened me, had I not early perceived that the judgment—the genius—of each physician must decide his diagnosis.
1907. H. Wales, The Yoke, i. People there are who appear to have been given a special temperamental adaptation for an ascetic and abstinent life.
