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Tem·per·ate a.
1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language.
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. --Shak.
That sober freedom out of which there springs
Our loyal passion for our temperate kings. --Tennyson.
3. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. --Franklin.
4. Proceeding from temperance. [R.]
The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air. --Pope.
Temperate zone Geog., that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.
Syn: -- Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.
Temperate Zone
n : the part of the Earth's surface between the Arctic Circle
and the Tropic of Cancer or between the Antarctic Circle
and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by temperate
climate