attemper means to temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
attemper is pronounced /əˈtɛm.pə(ɹ)/.
verb
- To temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
- To mitigate, assuage.“But we must add, that she did say, by way of attempering her pleasure: "Well! I must say I never saw a finer young man in my life—indeed I don’t know that the court of Great Britain quite boasts his equal...”
- To regulate, arrange, organise.“Thus fairely she attempered her feast, / And pleasd them all with meete satietie [...].”