Crossword-Solution: DISTEMPER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Distemper | v. t. | To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. |
| Distemper | v. t. | To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease. |
| Distemper | v. t. | To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. |
| Distemper | v. t. | To intoxicate. |
| Distemper | v. t. | To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size. |
| Distemper | v. t. | An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. |
| Distemper | v. t. | Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. |
| Distemper | v. t. | A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle. |
| Distemper | v. t. | Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor. |
| Distemper | v. t. | Political disorder; tumult. |
| Distemper | v. t. | A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms. |
| Distemper | v. t. | A painting done with this preparation. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “DISTEMPER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DERANGEMENT of body or mind | 1 answer |
| Viral disease affecting dogs and other animals | 1 answer |
| used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | 1 answer |
| a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder | 1 answer |
| Water-based paint, including whitewash | 1 answer |
| Paint; disease of dogs | 1 answer |
| Paint mixed with emulsion of egg yolk. | 1 answer |
| Paint for walls; disease | 1 answer |
| PIGMENT used for painting | 1 answer |
| PAINTING method used on plaster | 1 answer |
| INTERNAL decoration of house-walls | 1 answer |
| Dog malady. | 1 answer |
| AILMENT of mind or body | 1 answer |
| Canine disease. | 2 answers |
| Dog's disease | 2 answers |
| Method of painting. | 2 answers |
| Water-based paint | 3 answers |
| Painting technique | 7 answers |
| animal disease | 14 answers |
| Coloration | 16 answers |
| anarchism | 16 answers |
| Dyestuff | 31 answers |
| illness | 37 answers |
| tincture | 38 answers |
| Whitewash | 40 answers |
| anarchy | 46 answers |
| Wash | 51 answers |
| pigment | 58 answers |
| Paint | 78 answers |
| Anger | 94 answers |
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Sentences with DISTEMPER (5)
All thy request for Man, accepted Son, Obtain, all thy request was my Decree: But longer in that Paradise to dwell, The Law I gave to Nature him forbids: Those pure immortal Elements that know No gross, no unharmoneous mixture foule, Eject him tainted now, and purge him off As a distemper, gross to aire as gross, And mortal food, as may dispose him best For dissolution wrought by Sin, that first Distemperd all things, and of incorrupt Corrupted.
Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.
The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all over the town, and the more, because in the last week in December 1664 another man died in the same house, and of the same distemper.
Monsieur de Cleves could set no bounds to his affliction; he felt ill of a fever that very night, and his distemper was accompanied with such ill symptoms that it was thought very dangerous.
There were autumnal fevers too, and a contagious and destructive throat-distemper,—diseases unwritten in medical hooks.
Quotes with DISTEMPER (3)
Temper is a valuable possession, Never lose it with your obsession, The best way to win a fight,- Do not be mad — it’s not right. Temper is the strength of all, Distemper — weakness and fall, Tempered steel — strong and grit, Distempered iron — weak and brit.
When Rosencrantz asks Hamlet, "Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your grief to your friends"(III, ii, 844-846), Hamlet responds, "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sbloo…
Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall carve of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1947–1999).