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ˈtempest-ˌtossed, -ˌtost, a.
(-tɒst, poet. -ˌtɒsɪd; also -tɔː-)
Tossed by or as by a tempest. Hence ˈtempest-ˌtoss v. trans. and intr., to toss or pitch about as a tempest or a tempestuous sea; to agitate or be agitated violently; ˈtempest-ˌtossing, violent agitation by or as by a tempest, etc.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. v. 138 The windes thy sighes..will ouer set Thy tempest tossed body. 1605― Macb. i. iii. 25 Though his Barke cannot be lost, Yet it shall be Tempest-tost. 1681Roxb. Ball. (1886) VI. 77 Where peevish coyness and disdain Do tempest-toss the mind. 1747Francis tr. Horace, Ep. i. xi. 19 Though by strong Winds your Bark were Tempest-tost. 1817Shelley Prince Athanase in Posthumous Poems (1824) ii. ii. 251 Thus had his age, dark, cold and tempest-tost, shone truth upon Zonoras. 1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. xii. (1870) 233 Those very afflictions and tempest-tossings which the Church bewails. a1887E. Lazarus New Colossus in Poems (1889) I. 203 Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 8 My heart is no more tempest-toss'd. 1984Times 10 Mar. 17/1 People wrangle and row as though they were part of a tempest-tossed drama by John Cassavetes. |