tepid

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TEP'ID, adjective [Latin tepidus, form tepeo, to be warm.] Moderately warm; lukewarm; as a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors. Tepid mineral waters, are such as have less sensible cold than common water.
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