Usually means: Make moderate; temper; adjust suitably.
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  1. contemperate: Wordnik
  2. contemperate: Wiktionary
  3. Contemperate: Dictionary.com
  4. Contemperate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. contemperate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Contemperate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. contemperate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. contemperate: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Contemperate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contemperate)

▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To temper; to moderate.

Similar:
contemper, untemper, attemper, delay, distemper, intemperate, remoderate, abate, let down, dampen, more...

Opposite:
intemperate, immoderate, excessive

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Similar:
contemper, untemper, attemper, delay, distemper, intemperate, remoderate, abate, let down, dampen, more...

Opposite:
intemperate, immoderate, excessive



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