simple past tense and past participle of distemper

(archaic) Affected with or suffering from distemper.

(veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh. / (archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. / To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distemper

present participle of distemper

(pathology, obsolete) Any of several potentially fatal human diseases that have their most visible symptoms affecting the throat.

An often fatal disease of carnivores, caused by canine distemper virus. It is an infection of the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, brain, spinal cord; and its symptoms include high fever, watery discharge from eyes and nose, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, paralysis, and hardening of the footpads.

(archaic) sleeping sickness

plural of canine distemper