Definition of "distemperate" in English

adjective

1. Immoderate, excessive.

   • Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.

2. (of the weather, air or elements) Not temperate, of no good influence for one's confort or soundness; (figuratively) unwholesome, stormy.

3. (in the obsoleted theory of humours) Not properly tempered; disordered through excess or deficiency of some constituent; (by extensions, of bodily or mental condition) disordered, out of order; diseased, out of health; ill-conditioned.