(a.) Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.
(a.) Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.
Example Sentences:
(1) A plate of plump, pan-fried gnocchi with peppery, spicy ground pork was simple but full of good, accurate flavours.
(2) Each afternoon, dishes such as warm salad of potato, fried egg and Clonakilty black and white pudding; spaghetti carbonara; porcini risotto; or peppery, perfumed pastrami with remoulade and pieces of what resembled XXL melba toast, are all knocked out at £6.50.
(3) A sip of rum, and gingery, peppery foods, are consumed, too.
(4) Especially popular with local lawyers at lunchtime, this small taverna’s excellent menu includes such classic Cretan dishes as barley rusks topped with tomatoes and mizithra cheese and peppery sautéed wild greens.
(5) It's a plate of grilled octopus, gorgeously aromatic and peppery, chopped into discs.
(6) The symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, an oral burning sensation or peppery taste, hives, itching, red rash, and hypotension.
(7) In addition, it marked intrafusal muscle fibres with a peppery silver deposit while sparing extrafusal fibres.
(8) At my granny's, there were spring greens, soft and peppery.
(9) A sample plate of steak and mushroom stroganoff from the specials board was rich and creamy and broadly delivered: an earthy, mushroomy meatiness and, in the sauce, sweet, fruity paprika flavours and a certain peppery fizzle.
(10) Basically, it does what it says on the tin; it's spicy, it's peppery, it's sour, as you would expect of a Belgian beer, but it's also got all those tropical flavours jostling around in there.
(11) With its aniseedy, liquoricey punch, its slight pepperiness and its hints of pine, tarragon is not something to use with a heavy hand, but in the right quantities and the right company, it can be sublime.
(12) The fish implicated in one outbreak was noted to have a peppery taste.
(13) Add some red onion, spring onion or chives to this recipe, if you like; parsley and peppery radishes are also good additions.
(14) Its peppery taste seems to wake our sleepy bodies from winter, reviving the tastebuds, while the citrus dressing provides a zesty companion.
(15) The unha de caranguejo , shredded crab meat (£1) with a peppery yellow sauce, is popular.
(16) Funky and peppery – a mini Châteauneuf with real class.
(17) We proposed that the impairments were caused by loss of certain spatial frequency and orientation information but rejected an interpretation based on the concept of processing channels in favour of one based on object contour masking by a peppery field defect caused by disseminated lesions.
(18) Crucially, he explained: “We do not add anything to our oil, not do we take anything away, therefore the taste is solely dependent on meteorological events of the growing season and the timing of the harvest.” The premium oil, which should be used cold for dipping and in dressings and described as “highly fragrant and spicy” with a peppery taste, is stocked in farmers’ markets and delicatessens including Bayleys and Sage , Italo, La Fromagerie and Cowdray Farm Shop .
Temperament
Definition:
(v. t.) Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.
(v. t.) Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions.
(v. t.) The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected.
(v. t.) Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
(v. t.) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C/ becoming identical with D/, and so on.
(v. t.) The peculiar physical and mental character of an individual, in olden times erroneously supposed to be due to individual variation in the relations and proportions of the constituent parts of the body, especially of the fluids, as the bile, blood, lymph, etc. Hence the phrases, bilious or choleric temperament, sanguine temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of these fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament.
Example Sentences:
(1) Factors affecting outcome include characteristics related to the child (for example, health, temperament, IQ) and characteristics of the family (for example, socioeconomic status, emotional and psychological aspects of the family, family composition and structure, and the larger social and physical environment.
(2) Moreover, much evidence is directly contrary to a strong temperament interpretation of attachment patterns (changing attachments, differing attachments with different caregivers, prospective data on the early characteristics of infants later classified as securely or anxiously attached).
(3) Psychological factors include temperament, a history of abuse, and current life stresses.
(4) Infant characteristics were measured by emotion and temperament questionnaires (mother report) and objective coding of facial expressions of emotions.
(5) The relationship between extreme temperament in infancy and clinical status at 4.7 years of age was studied in temperamentally different groups of infants matched for sex and SES, and subselected from a large birth cohort representative of the general population.
(6) A cat which developed a change of temperament, with muscle tremors, ataxia and pupillary dilatation was suspected and later confirmed histopathologically to have a spongiform encephalopathy.
(7) In a comparative study of temperament and intelligence in groups of mentally retarded and normal children, it was found that mentally retarded children who also had excess of psychopathology in them, showed greater signs of 'difficult' child temperament.
(8) In 2 commentaries on the theorists' answers, Hinde highlights differences among their positions and indicates issues that current theories of temperament must take into consideration, and McCall draws on common aspects to propose a synthesizing definition that draws on all 4 approaches.
(9) Mothers' opinions of their child's temperament constellation differed considerably from those resulting from the questionnaire analysis for the STWU and Difficult constellations.
(10) Theories about aetiology relate to minimal brain damage, heredity, temperament variations, maturational lag, dysfunction of the reticular activating system, food sensitivity, and learned response to unorganized environment.
(11) There were significant differences in temperament dimension scores between Australian toddlers and those studied in an American setting.
(12) During the first Republican presidential debate, Kelly questioned whether Trump had the temperament for the job, given that he had called women he disliked “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals” in the past.
(13) Patients with Down's syndrome usually have mild and pleasant temperaments, rarely exhibiting temper tantrums or behavioral problems.
(14) Only in this way could they assume active stewardship over the disbursement of their fortunes, applying the knowledge, expertise and temperament that gained them their piles toward the difficult task of giving them away.
(15) (5) Are there sex differences in the risk associated with adverse temperament in the population?
(16) Families react in a variety of ways to a disability, and their reaction may interact with the child's temperament to affect emotional development for better or worse.
(17) Having a strong temperament is good,” he told CNN when asked about reported comments by House speaker Paul Ryan claiming his anti-Muslim rhetoric could “ruin the party”.
(18) Parent judgments of an easier temperament in each of the two age periods, and their sum, related consistently and significantly to positive ratings of current child adjustment.
(19) When specifically considering food animals, additional emphasis is directed toward animal size, temperament, and anatomy.
(20) Clinton also scored the biggest moment of wit, at the end of a long Trump boast about his temperament, which he delivered hotly.