Distemper

– They will not only ask what produced a scar, but they will insist upon knowing how long you have been troubled with it, whether the distemper is hereditary in your family, and whether you ever expect it will appear again. ❋ Unknown (1831)

Giotto painted upon wood, and in "distemper" -- the mixture of colour with egg or some other jelly-like substance. ❋ Mary Schell Hoke Bacon (1902)

Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As I was working my way through this novel, a serendipitous but calamitous event occurred: strangles an equine disease also known as distemper infected a stable run by a good friend of mine. ❋ Diane Lee Wilson (2006)

It was a relapse of its former distemper, that is, of the bite of the mad-dog. ❋ Thomas Proctor Hughes (N/A)

My distemper was a pleurisy, which very nearly carried me off. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Sad, undoubtedly, were our case, should God be angry with a nation as often as a preacher is pleased to be passionate, and to call his distemper the word of God. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

As for Bobadilla, he was no sooner come to Rome, than he fell sick of a continued fever; and it may be said, that his distemper was the hand of heaven, which had ordained another in his stead for the mission of the Indies. ❋ Dryden, John, 1631-1700 (1808)

Colonel Crawford is dead at Minorca, and Colonel Burton has his regiment; the Primate (Stone) is better, but I suppose, from his distemper, which is a dropsy in his breast, irrecoverable. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

"On Tuesday last died the Lord Mayor, Sir John Shorter: the occasion of his distemper was his fall under Newgate, which bruised him a little, and put him into a fever." ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

Upon which I told him plainly, "his distemper was the spleen; and that though the world was very ill-natured, it was not so bad as he believed it." ❋ Richard Steele (1700)

Mesenterium, the Arabians name the distemper Myrathial, and we here in England Hypochondriacal Melancholy; I cou'd prescribe a most potent Remedy, but that I am loth to stir the envy of the College. ❋ Unknown (1678)

Aye this distemper will be the occasion of his death. ❋ Unknown (1678)

Page: 175 and distemperament of Nature, and is called Dysenteria; that is, the distemper of the Guts; some cure this distemper with repression and restrictives, but many more hundreds are cured by Aromaticum ❋ Unknown (1675)

As for Bobadilla, he was no sooner come to Rome, than he fell sick of a continued fever; and it may be said, that his distemper was the hand of heaven, which had ordained another in his stead for the mission of the ❋ John Dryden (1665)

This form of distemper can affect dogs; other diseases called distemper affect cats, horses and seals. ❋ Mortons Musings (2010)

Dude 1: "[Charmaine] [sent me] to the [vet] for a checkout." Dude 2: "WTF?" Dude 1: "Yeah, Dude, she says I got distemper when we is fightin." ❋ Wizards Sleeve (2005)

[Paul] [showed] me his distemper last night, it was the size of a [dinner plate] ❋ The Encourager (2020)

Damn man, [I'm tired] of all this [distempered tuna] around me....[all the bitches] keep yelling at me! ❋ Tuna Lover (2009)