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Tempered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Disposed; as a well tempered good tempered or bad tempered man.

Tempered [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Duly mixed or modified; reduced to a proper state; softened; allayed; hardened.

2. Adjusted by musical temperament.

Tempered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword.

Tempered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Temper

Moderation Roget’s Thesaurus §174

N. moderation, lenity, temperateness, gentleness, sobriety, quiet, mental calmness, moderating, anaphrodisia, relaxation, remission, mitigation, tranquilization, assuagement, contemporation, pacification, measure, juste milieu, golden mean, ἄριστον μέτρον, moderator, lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum, rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, "poppy or mandragora", wet blanket, palliative

V. be -moderate, keep within bounds, keep within compass, sober down, settle down, keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail, moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy|, attemper, contemper, mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe, subdue, chasten, sober down, tone down, smooth down, weaken, lessen, check palliate, tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off, slake, curb, tame, smooth over, pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters, pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin, go out like a lamb, "roar you as gently as any sucking dove,"

Adj. moderate, lenient, gentle, mild, mellow, cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured, tempered, calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still, slow, smooth, untroubled, tame, peaceful, peaceable, pacific, halcyon, unexciting, unirritating, soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne, hypnotic, sedative, antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac, mild as mother's milk, milk and water

Adv. moderately, gingerly, piano, under easy sail, at half speed, within bounds, within compass, in reason

Phr. est modue in rebus, pour oil on troubled waters, 4, indirect power

Affections Roget’s Thesaurus §820

N. affections, affect, character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone, temper, temperament, diathesis, idiosyncrasy, cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul, predilection, turn, natural turn of mind, bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency|, vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle, sympathy, soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man, heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood, heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis, secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart, inmost heart, inmost soul, backbone, passion, pervading spirit, ruling passion, master passion, furore, fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul, energy, fervor, fire, force

V. have affections, possess affections, be of a character, be affected, breathe

Adj. affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast, attempered, tempered, framed, predisposed, prone, inclined, having a bias, tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with, inborn, inbred, ingrained, deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate, pathoscopic|, congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain, affective

Adv. in one's heart, at heart, heart and soul

Phr. "affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire"

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4 KJV and 9 BSB verses contain “tempered”

Genesis 49:24

But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,

Exodus 30:35

And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

Proverbs 14:17

He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, and a devious man is hated.

Proverbs 14:29

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.

Proverbs 15:18

A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

Proverbs 22:24

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

1 Corinthians 12:24

For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

Titus 1:7

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.

Jude 1:23

And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

Wisdom of Solomon 16:21

For thy sustenance declared thy sweetness unto thy children, and serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man’s liking.