temperate

adj

1. Moderate; not excessive.

   “temperate heat”

   “He has a temperate demeanour”

   “She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.”

   “That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.”

   “"Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."”

2. Moderate; not excessive.

   “These trees can only grow in temperate climates.”

   “Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.”

3. Moderate; not excessive.

   “temperate in eating and drinking.”

   “August 9, 1768, Benjamin Franklin, To John Alleyne, Esq. On Early Marriages Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.”

   “I am a temperate man and have made it a rule not to drink before luncheon. But I was so much ashamed of my first feeling about Gorman that I thought it well to break my rule. […] I gave my vote for whisky and soda as the more thorough-going drink of the two. A cocktail is seldom more than a mouthful.”

4. Proceeding from temperance.

   “The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.”

5. Dependent on life in a temperate climate.

   “temperate fishes”

verb

1. (obsolete)To render temperate; to moderate

   “It inflames temperance, and temp'rates wrath.”