temperedとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English tempred, itempered, ytempred, ytemprid, from 古期英語 ġetemprod (“tempered, moderate, goverened, cured”), past participle of 古期英語 ġetemprian (“to temper, moderate, govern, cure”), equivalent to temper +‎ -ed.

形容詞

tempered (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.
   • 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 19, in The House of the Seven Gables‎^[1]:

     The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.

2. Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:

     "Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming — "Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life!"

3. Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
4. Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman‎^[2]:

     The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December​, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 5, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 2057953:

     [N]obody knows how the wind is tempered to shorn Irish lambs, and in what marvellous places they find pasture.

5. (music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:moderate

反意語

• untempered

派生語

• temperedness