King James Bible Dictionary

TEM'PERATE, adjective [Latin temperatus.] Moderate; not excessive; as temperate heat; a temperate climate; temperate air.

1. Moderate in the indulgence of the appetites and passions; as temperate in eating and drinking; temperate in pleasures; temperate in speech.

Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy.

2. Cool; calm; not marked with passion; not violent; as a temperate discourse or address; temperate language.

3. Proceeding from temperance; as temperate sleep.

4. Free from ardent passion.

She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.

Temperate zone, the space on the earth between the tropics and the polar circles, where the heat is less than in the tropics, and the cold less than in the polar circles.

TEM'PERATELY, adverb Moderately; without excess or extravagance.

1. Calmly; without violence of passion; as, to reprove one temperately

2. With moderate force.

Winds that temperately blow.

TEM'PERATENESS, noun Moderation; freedom from excess; as the temperateness of the weather or of a climate.

1. Calmness; coolness of mind.