different between illness vs distemper
illness
English
Etymology
From ill +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l.n?s/
Noun
illness (countable and uncountable, plural illnesses)
- (countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
- Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
- (uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
- Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
Synonyms
- (instance): sickness
- (state): sickness
- See also Thesaurus:disease
Derived terms
- mental illness
Related terms
- ill
Translations
See also
- hypochondriac
Further reading
- Wikipedia stub on illness
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distemper
English
Etymology
From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?t?mp?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?mp?(?)
Noun
distemper (countable and uncountable, plural distempers)
- (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
- (archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, p. 105,[1]
- […] my spirits began to sink under the Burden of a strong Distemper, and Nature was exhausted with the Violence of the Fever […]
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, p. 105,[1]
- A glue-based paint.
- A painting produced with this kind of paint.
Translations
Verb
distemper (third-person singular simple present distempers, present participle distempering, simple past and past participle distempered)
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,[2]
- Guildenstern. The King, sir—
- Hamlet. Ay, sir, what of him?
- Guildenstern. Is in his retirement, marvellous distemper’d.
- Hamlet. With drink, sir?
- Guildenstern. No, my lord; rather with choler.
- 1814, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, Sermons, Boston: John Eliot, Sermon XVI, p. 267,[3]
- The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 3,[4]
- 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.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,[2]
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
- 1799-1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Piccolomini by Friedrich Schiller, Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1902, p. 37,[5]
- I have been long accustomed to defend you,
- To heal and pacify distempered spirits.
- 1799-1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Piccolomini by Friedrich Schiller, Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1902, p. 37,[5]
- To intoxicate.
- 1623, Philip Massinger, The Duke of Milan, Act I, Scene 1,[6]
- For the Courtiers reeling,
- And the Duke himselfe, (I dare not say distemperd,
- But kind, and in his tottering chaire carousing)
- They doe the countrie service.
- 1623, Philip Massinger, The Duke of Milan, Act I, Scene 1,[6]
- To paint using distemper.
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- to distemper colors with size
Conjugation
Anagrams
- imprested
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