Category:Tempest

Tem"pest, n. Etym: [of. tempeste, f. tempête, (assumed) ll. tempesta, Fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to Tempus time. See temporal of time.]

1. 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. Milton.

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

3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the note under drum, n., 4. [archaic] smollett.

Note: tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining Compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, Tempest-winged, and the like.

Syn. -- storm; agitation; perturbation. See storm.

Tempest Tem"pest, v. t. Etym: [cf. Of. tempester, f. tempêter to rage.]

Defn: to disturb as by a tempest. [obs.] Part huge of bulk wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, tempest The ocean. Milton.

Tempest Tem"pest, v. i.

Defn: to storm. [obs.] B. Jonson.