A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1507-1533, 1584-1585
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Intemperate, -at(t, a. [ME. intemperat (c 1410), e.m.E. -ate (1522), L. -ātus.] Immoderate, excessive. —a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 521.
Trumpour, traitour, tyran intemperate 1531 Bell. Boece II. 174.
Provocaris of the pepil to intemperat diet 1533 Bell. Livy I. 287/30.
In it was grete … derth of victalis … throw intemperate & excessive wetis a1585 Polwart Flyt. 650 (T).
Tratling intemperat
