TEMPERAMENT

, in Music, usually denotes a rectifying or amending the false or imperfect concords, by transferring to them part of the beauty of the perfect ones.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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TAURUS
TEBET
TEETH
TELEGRAPH
TELESCOPE
* TEMPERAMENT
TENACITY
TENAILLE
TENAILLONS
TENOR
TENSION