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Tem"pest (?), n. [OF. tempeste, F. temp&ê;te, (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.
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[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled,
Each on his rock transfixed. Milton.
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2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
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3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4. [Archaic] Smollett.
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&hand_; Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like.
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Syn. -- Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.
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Tem"pest, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp&ê;ter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]
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Part huge of bulk
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean. Milton.
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Tem"pest, v. i. To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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