noun /ˈtɛmpərɪʧə/
a) The balance of humours in the body, or ones character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature, and brings upon us sudden death.
[...] that not only the production of a rational Being was concernd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind [...].
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