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==English==

===Etymology===
From {{uder|en|fro|destemprer}}, from {{uder|en|la|distemperare}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/dɪsˈtɛmpə(ɹ)/|a=UK}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-distemper.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛmpə(ɹ)|s=3}}

===Noun===
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{{en-noun|~}}

# {{lb|en|veterinary medicine|pathology}} A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by [[fever]], coughing and [[catarrh]].
# {{lb|en|archaic}} A disorder of the [[humour|humours]] of the body; a [[disease]].
#* '''1624''', {{w|John Donne}}, ''{{w|Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions}}'', Meditation I., in ''The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne'', ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 415-416:
#*: O perplex'd discomposition, O ridling '''distemper''', O miserable condition of Man!
#* {{RQ:Defoe Robinson Crusoe|page=105|text={{...}} my spirits began to sink under the Burden of a strong '''Distemper''', and Nature was exhausted with the Violence of the Fever {{...}}}}
# A glue-based [[paint]].
# {{lb|en|countable}} A [[painting]] produced with this kind of paint.

====Derived terms====
{{der2|en|canine distemper|canine distemper virus|sleepy distemper|throat distemper}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|disease}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|разстройство|n}}, {{t+|bg|неразположение|n}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|penikkatauti}} {{qualifier|especially dogs}}, {{t|fi|kissarutto}} {{qualifier|cats only}}
* German: {{t|de|Staupe|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|szopornyica}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|conslaod|m}}
* Italian: {{t|it|cimurro|m}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|morbus|m}}
* Plautdietsch: {{t|pdt|Hunjskrankheit|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|чу́мка}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|valpsjuka|c}}
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{{trans-top|paint}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|темперна боя|f|sc=Cyrl}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|tempera|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|те́мпера}}
* Swedish: {{t|sv|limfärg|c}}
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===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# To [[temper]] or [[mix]] unduly; to make [[disproportionate]]; to change the [[due]] [[proportion]]s of.
# To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet|III|2|text=''Guildenstern''. The King, sir—<br>''Hamlet''. Ay, sir, what of him?<br>''Guildenstern''. Is in his retirement, marvellous '''distemper’d'''.<br>''Hamlet''. With drink, sir?<br>''Guildenstern''. No, my lord; rather with [[choler]].}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1814|author=w:Joseph Stevens Buckminster|title=Sermons|location=Boston|publisher=John Eliot|section=Sermon XVI, p. 267|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=CFYXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
|passage=The imagination, when completely '''distempered''', is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.}}
#* {{RQ:Melville Billy Budd|3|text=To some extent the Nore Mutiny may be regarded as analogous to the '''distempering''' irruption of contagious fever in a frame constitutionally sound, and which anon throws it off.}}
# To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
#* '''1799-1800''', {{w|Samuel Taylor Coleridge}} (translator), ''The Piccolomini'' by {{w|Friedrich Schiller}}, Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1902, p. 37,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/piccolominideath00schi]</sup>
#*: I have been long accustomed to defend you,
#*: To heal and pacify '''distempered''' spirits.
# To [[intoxicate]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1623|author=w:Philip Massinger|title=w:The Duke of Milan|section=act I, scene 1|url=https://archive.org/details/dukeofmillainetr00mass
|passage=For the Courtiers reeling,<br>And the ''Duke'' himselfe, (I dare not say '''distemperd''',<br>But kind, and in his tottering chaire carousing)<br>They doe the countrie service.}}
# To [[paint]] using distemper.
#* {{RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp|chapter=10|passage=He looked round the poor room, at the '''distempered''' walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
#* {{RQ:Orwell Down and Out|chapter=19|passage=We cleaned out the cellars, fixed the shelves, '''distempered''' the walls, polished the woodwork, whitewashed the ceiling, stained the floor;}}
# To [[mix]] (colours) in the way of distemper.
#: {{ux|en|to '''distemper''' colors with size}}

====Conjugation====
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====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|distemperer|distemperment
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===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=deeimprst|imprested}}