From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Temperate \Tem"per*ate\, verb (used with an object) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper. [Obs.]
It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. --Marston.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Temperate \Tem"per*ate\, adjective [L. temperatus, p. p. of temperare. See {Temper}, verb (used with an object)]
1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language.
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. --Shak.
That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings. --Tennyson.
3. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. --Franklin.
4. Proceeding from temperance. [R.]
The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air. --Pope.
{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.
Syn: Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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