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Pronunciation : Tem"pest
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OF. tempeste, F. temp?te, (assumed) LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See Temporal of time.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Tem"pest
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp?ter to rage.]
Definition : Defn: To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.] Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. Milton.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Tem"pest
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913