资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Contemperate \Con*tem"per*ate\ (k[o^]n*t[e^]m"p[~e]r*[=a]t), v.
   t. [See {Contemper}.]
   To temper; to moderate. [Obs.]

         Moisten and contemperate the air.        --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.