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noun

Tempest n.

An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm. "(We) caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed."

Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4. (Archaic) Note: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like.

Synonyms: Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.

verb

Tempest v. t. To disturb as by a tempest. (Obs.) "Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean."

Tempest v. i. To storm. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Tempest'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tempest" Quotes from Famous Books

... appointed day multitudes of the curious flocked to Etampes. The abbe's machine was a sort of gondola, seven feet long and about two feet deep. Gondola conductor, and baggage weighed in all 213 pounds. The pious man believed that he had provided against everything. Neither tempest nor rain should mar his flight, and there was no chance of his being upset; whilst the machine, he had decided, was to go at the rate of thirty ...

— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion

... called Mr. Parasyte, the principal of the Parkville Liberal Institute, in a tone so stern and severe that it was impossible to mistake his meaning, or not to understand that a tempest was brewing. "Ernest Thornton!" ...

— Breaking Away - or The Fortunes of a Student • Oliver Optic

... province. With him also time would pass, his head grow dizzy, and things hold on their ordinary course, till instead of sailing into the open sea, according to the plan which he had previously marked out, he might thank if, amid the tempest, he were able to keep his vessel ...

— Egmont - A Tragedy In Five Acts • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... with the weight of her mistress's hand, and she moved the broom round in more systematic fashion; but there was a tempest ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various

... Beyond the raging tempest, beyond the waves that roar, There waits the peaceful harbor and lights upon the shore; And when the voyage ceases, beyond the farthest foam We'll anchor there ...

— Oklahoma Sunshine • Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller

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