Temperate

1. v. t. To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
2. v. t. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
3. v. t. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language.
4. v. t. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
5. v. t. Proceeding from temperance.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.