temperate

pidättyväinen, maltillinen, kohtuullinen

leuto moderate Moderate; not excessive

temperate heat

a temperate climate.

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.

That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.

temperate in eating and drinking.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

I am a temperate man and have made it a rule not to drink before luncheon. But I was so much ashamed of my first feeling about Gorman that I thought it well to break my rule.(..)I gave my vote for whisky and soda as the more thorough-going drink of the two. A cocktail is seldom more than a mouthful.

The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.

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It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston.