Tempered, adjusted, or regulated to a proper state; moderated or brought into balance.
From Latin attemperatus, past participle of attemperare. This adjective form follows Latin derivational patterns but is extremely rare in English.
This is a genuinely archaic adjective that appears mostly in Renaissance scientific and medical texts—scholars describing carefully 'attemperate' solutions and temperatures, using Latin-derived vocabulary to sound precise and authoritative.
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