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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1475, 1569-1586
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Mistemperit, ppl. a. [e.m.E. mysse tempred (1506), mystempered (1541), mistempered, etc., badly mixed, disordered, deranged.] Ill-compounded, ill-arranged, untoward. — a1570-86 Arbuthnot Maitland Folio MS xxix. 3.
O clene mistemperit constellatioun, O ewill aspect in my natiuitie c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace (1570) viii. 1212.
The oist him blissit and prayit God … Him to conuoy fra all mistemperit [MS. mystymyt] cace
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