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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 dis·tem·per·a·ture /dɪˈstɛmp(ə)rəˌʧʊr, pə(r), ʧɚ/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dis·tem·per·a·ture n.
 1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. [Obs.]
 2. Disorder; confusion.
 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper.
 A huge infectious troop
 Of pale distemperatures and foes to life.   --Shak.
 4. Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness.
    Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his distemperature.   --Sir W. Scott.
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