(verb) : tĕmĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, id.; prop. to treat rashly; hence, pregn.
* To violate, profane, defile, dishonor, disgrace, desecrate, pollute: temerare violare sacra et contaminare, dictum videlicet a temeritate,Fest. p. 365 Müll, (mostly poet.; sometimes in post-Aug. prose; syn., scelero, polluo): sacra deae,Tib. 3, 5, 7: hospitii sacra,Ov. H. 17, 3: Cereale nemus securi,id. M. 8, 741: templa Minervae, Verg. A. 6, 840: arae, foci, deum delubra, sepulcra majorum temerata ac violata,Liv. 26, 13, 13; delubra oculis profanis,Claud. B. G. 102; sacra deo vasa,Sulp. Sev. Chron. 2, 6, 5; sacraria probro,Ov. M. 10, 695: patrium cubile,id. ib. 2, 592; 15, 501; cf.: thalamos pudicos,id. Am. 1, 8, 19: eandem Juliam in matrimonio Agrippae,Tac. A. 1, 53; id. H. 3, 80: Venerem maritam,Ov. H. 15 (16), 283; cf.: temerata Auge,id. ib. 9, 49: vi aliam,App. M. 1, p. 106, 9: conjugale praeceptum,id. ib. 5, p. 162, 19: fluvios venenis, Ov M. 7, 535: dapibus nefandis Corpora,id. ib. 15, 75: aures incestis vocibus,id. Tr. 2, 503: nubila volatu (Perseus),Stat. Th. 3, 463; cf. Alpes (Hannibal),Sil. 15, 532: litus,Luc. 3, 194: castra infausta temerataque, dishonored by the crime of mutiny, Tac. A. 1, 30: trux puer et nullo temeratus pectora motu,Stat. Achill. 1, 302; temerata est nostra voluntas,Ov. M. 9, 627: puram fidem,id. P. 4, 10, 82.