A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1580-1604, 1662
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Temperature, -tour, n. [e.m.E. temperature (1531), F. température, L. temperātūra.] The (correct) balance or combination (of elements, esp. humours); balance or equanimity in the constitution of anything. —c1580-90 Rules of Health 4.
Contene ȝour self in sum warme plaice … vntill all ȝour la: body be cum vnto the avn temperature agane 1604 James VI Tobacco 94/32.
A skilfull … phisician … wil also consider all other circumstances … as the temperature of the clime where the patient is, the constitution of the planets, the time of the moone, [etc.] 1662 Forbes Cantus (1666) xx.
My love doth rage and yet my [pr. met] love doth rest … Peace in my love, and yet my love opprest: Impatient, yet of perfect temperatour
