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Nave Topical Bible
• Temperance
• Temper
Thompson Chain Reference
• Temperance-Intemperance
• Temperance
The Topic Concordance
• Temperance
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Temperance
• Church Temperance Society
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Temperance
• Temper
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Temper: Important
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Temperance
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Temperance
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Temperance (2)
• Temperance
King James Dictionary
• Tempered
• Temperate
• Temperance
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Temper, to
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Sons of Temperance
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Temperance, Temperate
• Temper Together
Webster Dictionary
• Tempering
• Temperer
• Tempered
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Hardening and Tempering Annealing
• Temper
• Temperance
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Temper
• Temperance; Temperate
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Temper
• Temperance Reform
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Temperance
• Temperance Movements
Lexicons
• ܡܙܰܓ݂
• ܡܚܰܡܣܢܳܢܽܘܬ݂ܳܐ
• ἐγκράτεια
• ἐγκρατεύομαι
• ἐγκρατής
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• אַף , אַפַּיִם
• בָּלַל , בָּלַל
• חֵמָא חָמָה, , חֵמָה
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(from Lat. temperare, to mingle or compound in due proportion, to qualify, rule, regulate, to be moderate, formed from tempus, time, fit or due season), to blend, modify, or qualify by mixing, to combine in due proportions, hence to restrain, calm. A specific application of the word is to the bringing of steel or other metal to a proper hardness and elasticity (see Metal and Iron And Steel). The word is also used as a substantive, especially in the transferred sense of disposition or frame of mind, generally with some qualifying epithet, but when used absolutely signifying a hasty, passionate temper, or display of such.