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"distempered"

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Act 3,

Scene 2

Lines 280-

Two meanings of "distempered" explained in Act 3, Scene 2 of myshakespeare's Hamlet.

In this example, "distempered" has two meanings:

in a bad temper or irritated (Guildenstern's interpretation)
drunk (Hamlet's intentional misinterpretation)

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