distemper

This ſynne hath manie ſpeces: […] The fourth is, whan through the greate abundaunce of hys meete, the humours in hys body ben diſtempred.

This sin [gluttony] has many species: […] The fourth is, when through the great abundance of his meat, the humours in his body be distempered.

Guildenstern. The King, sir—

Hamlet. Ay, sir, what of him?

Guildenstern. Is in his retirement, marvellous distemper’d.

Hamlet. With drink, sir?

Guildenstern. No, my lord; rather with choler.

I have been long accustomed to defend you,

To heal and pacify distempered spirits.

And the Duke himselfe, (I dare not say distemperd,

But kind, and in his tottering chaire carousing)

They doe the countrie service.

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

to distemper colors with size