present participle of distemper

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. / To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.

(veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh. / (archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distemper

(archaic) Affected with or suffering from distemper.

simple past tense and past participle of distemper

An often fatal disease of carnivores, caused by canine distemper virus. It is an infection of the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, brain, spinal cord; and its symptoms include high fever, watery discharge from eyes and nose, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, paralysis, and hardening of the footpads.

(pathology, obsolete) Any of several potentially fatal human diseases that have their most visible symptoms affecting the throat.

plural of canine distemper

(archaic) sleeping sickness