mistempered

a.
1. intemperately used 滥用的。
2. tempered (= made hard and resilient) in hot bloodinstead of icy water 并非在冷水里而是用热血淬火的。
3. tempered for an evil use 为了罪恶目的而锻造的。
△Rom.1.1.92 (86):“On pain of torture,from thosebloody hands / Throw your mistempered weapons tothe ground.” i. e. if you do not drop your wickedswords out of your blood-stained hands,the punish-ment will be torture. 赶快把你们的血腥的手里的凶器丢在地上，否则就要严加惩处。(按：在这句话里，mistempered的词义三关。)