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Shakespeare uses the word a fair bit. It is not obsolete but is uncommon, and was uncommon in Shakespeare's day. It means bad or evil. This is Prince Escalus in Romeo and Juliet:

"What, ho! you men, you beasts,

That quench the fire of your pernicious rage

With purple fountains issuing from your veins,

On pain of torture, from those bloody hands

Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground . . ."

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