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To Temper

  1. To moderate or control.
  2. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
  3. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
  4. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
  5. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
  6. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
  7. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
  8. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
  9. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.