Temperate

temperate
    adj 1: (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or
           characteristic of such weather or climate; "a temperate
           region"; "the temperate zones"; "temperate plants" [ant:
           {intemperate}]
    2: not extreme in behavior; "temperate in his habits"; "a
       temperate response to an insult"; "temperate in his eating
       and drinking" [ant: {intemperate}]
    3: not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his response
       to criticism" [syn: {moderate}, {temperate}]
    

Temperate \Tem"per*ate\, v. t.
   To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
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         It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath.
                                                  --Marston.
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Temperate \Tem"per*ate\, a. [L. temperatus, p. p. of temperare.
   See {Temper}, v. t.]
   1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate
      climate.
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   2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as,
      temperate language.
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            She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. --Shak.
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            That sober freedom out of which there springs
            Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   3. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or
      passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
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            Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
                                                  --Franklin.
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   4. Proceeding from temperance. [R.]
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            The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.
                                                  --Pope.
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   {Temperate zone} (Geog.), that part of the earth which lies
      between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle;
      -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid
      zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.
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   Syn: Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.
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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "temperate":
      abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, aestival, ascetic, austere,
      bland, blood-hot, blood-warm, bracing, calid, calm, celibate,
      chaste, checked, chill, chilly, cold sober, composed, constant,
      continent, controlled, cool, coolish, curbed, disciplined,
      discreet, dispassionate, equable, equatorial, even, even-tempered,
      forbearing, fresh, frugal, genial, gentle, grave, imperturbable,
      indulgent, invigorating, judicious, luke, lukewarm, measured, mild,
      mild as milk, moderate, modest, nonviolent, pacifistic, peaceable,
      peaceful, prudent, puritanical, quiet, rational, reasonable,
      regulated, restrained, room-temperature, sane, sedate,
      self-denying, self-indulgent, self-possessed, self-restrained,
      sensible, serene, serious, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, soft,
      solemn, sparing, stable, staid, steady, stimulating, stinting,
      subtropical, summery, sunny, sunshiny, tame, teetotal, tepid,
      thermal, thermic, toasty, tranquil, tropical, undrunk, undrunken,
      unexcessive, unexcited, unextreme, unfrozen, unimpassioned,
      uninebriate, uninebrious, unintoxicated, unperturbed, unruffled,
      untipsy, warm, warm as toast, warmish