Both Uses of
temperate
in
Gulliver's Travels
- To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches; of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy.†
Chpt 4 *intemperance = the quality of tending toward excess -- especially of weather or behaviorstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in intemperance means not and reverses the meaning of temperance. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, whence, in return, we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
lacking extremes -- especially of weather, climate, or behavior