Definitions for distemper

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distemper dis·tem·per

Spelling: [dis-tem-per]

IPA: /dɪsˈtɛm pər/

Distemper is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 584 anagrams from letters in distemper (deeimprst).

Definitions for distemper

noun

1. Veterinary Pathology. Also called canine distemper. an infectious disease chiefly of young dogs, caused by an unidentified virus and characterized by lethargy, fever, catarrh, photophobia, and vomiting. Also called colt distemper, equine distemper, strangles. an infectious disease of horses, caused by the bacillus Streptococcus equi and characterized by catarrh of the upper air passages and the formation of pus in the submaxillary and other lymphatic glands. Also called cat distemper, feline agranulocytosis, feline distemper, feline infectious enteritis, feline panleukopenia. a usually fatal viral disease of cats, characterized by fever, vomiting, and diarrhea, leading to severe dehydration.
2. a deranged condition of mind or body; a disorder or disease:
3. disorder or disturbance, especially of a political nature.
4. Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
5. a painting executed by this method.
6. British. whitewash; calcimine.

verb (used with object)

1. Obsolete. to derange physically or mentally.
2. to paint in distemper.
3. British. to whitewash a wall, cottage, etc.; calcimine.

Origin of distemper

1300-50; Middle English distemp(e)ren, destempren (v.) (Middle French destemprer) Medieval Latin distemperāre, equivalent to Latin dis- dis-¹ + temperāre to

Examples for distemper

They say when horses have distemper he takes the medicine himself, and then prays over the horses.

The boss is like the measles, a distemper of a self-governing people's infancy.

Well, I hope just as I get fond of them they will not have the distemper and die!

My distemper was a pleurisy, which very nearly carried me off.

This quote is supposed to confirm Thatcher as an anti-social radical individualist of the Ayn Rand distemper.

I would not ha your distemper in this kind for the wealth of Windsor Castle.

Finding him a man of reason, I entered into the bottom of his distemper.

Corneille Ingelrams, a painter in distemper, was born in 1527.

I thought that distemper had been only proper to people of quality?

The French had coined a name for the distemper and called it folie d'Afrique.