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distemper

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Definition:
an imbalance of the bodily humors, thus disease.

Formerly this word was applied to a human disease state, now chiefly used specifically for those animal pathoses with a fever and cough.
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he was an experienced natural philosopher, and fully understood the good and bad qualities of plants and drugs. As soon as he was informed of the king's distemper, and understood that his physicians had given him over, he found means to present himself before him.

various  The Arabian Nights, The Story of the Fisherman
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my spirits began to sink under the burden of a strong distemper, and nature was exhausted with the violence of the fever

Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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KING CLAUDIUS Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in. [Exit Polonius.] He tells me, my sweet queen, he hath found The head and source of all your son's distemper.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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the sort of person who would nurse dogs through distemper,

Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca (1938)
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