adv. [f. TEMPERATE a. + -LY2.]
a. In a temperate manner or degree; moderately; in or with moderation, without excess.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxv. (Bodl. MS.). If þe heed is temperatlich greete and þe nolle of þe nekke sommedele greet.
1528. Paynell, Salerne’s Regim., a iv b. Blud … is temperatlye hotte and moyste.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xi. (1870), 262. Breade … must be temporatly salted.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., IV. xix. (1636), 474. Venus is temperatly cold and moyst.
1670. Eachard, Cont. Clergy, 91. Oh, how prettily and temperately may half a score children be maintained with almost twenty pounds per annum!
1870. J. Bruce, Life Gideon, xvii. 316. The Lord’s own quiet and kindly admonition would excite temperately the fears of Gideon.
b. With self-restraint; without violence or passion; dispassionately; chastely.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. xli. 127. [He] determyned in hymselfe to answere temporatly.
1556. J. Heywood, Spider & F., v. 31. I temprately must temper mine inuension, To pleade my right in reason not in rage.
1613. Fletcher, etc., Hon. Man’s Fort., I. iii. When our affections had their liberty, Our kisses met as temperatelie as The hands of sisters, or of brothers.
1819. Job Nott, jun. to his Brother Artificers, 4. Let men of years of discretion, meet in their own parishes … and there temperately and dispassionately state their sentiments, and be governed by the majority.
1796. Burke, Regic. Peace, iv. Wks. IX. 32. It must be pardoned by those, who are very regularly and temperately in the wrong.
1818. A. Thomson, in Landreth, Life & Min., iv. (1869), 168. I and other dissenting ministers firmly but temperately remonstrated against this.
1869. H. Ainsworth, Hilary St. Ives, II. xxiii. When you speak more temperately,… I will answer you.
c. With moderation in eating and drinking; soberly, abstemiously.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxxii. 144. Þai liffe so temperately and so soberly in meet and drink.
1617. Moryson, Itin., III. 87. He could not … use it temperately, but either would allow us no wine at all, or at one meale drunke off a whole great bottell.
1741. Middleton, Cicero, I. vi. 449. The more temperately they would use it.
Mod. A hot climate is not dangerous to those who live temperately.
