01 a. Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate in enjoyment or exertion.
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Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate in enjoyment or exertion.
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addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.
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Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.“Most do taste through fond intemperate thirst.” — Milton.“Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing.” — Ecclus. xxiii. 13.