Lewis Short
(verb) : temno, ĕre, root tam-, to cut; Gr. τέμνω
* To slight, scorn, disdain, despise, contemn (poet. and very rare for the class. contemnere); semper aves quod abest praesentia temnis,Lucr. 3, 957; jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit,Hor. S. 2, 2, 38: divos,Verg. A. 6, 620: praeteritum temnens extremos inter euntem,Hor. S. 1, 1, 116: ne temne, quod ultro Praeferimus manibus vittas et verba precantia,Verg. A. 7, 236: pars non temnenda decoris,Ov. A. A. 3, 299; cf.: haud temnendae manus ductor,Tac. H. 3, 47.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary