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tempestuous, a.|tɛmˈpɛstjuːəs|
Forms: α. 5 tempesteuous (? = -evous), 6 -eous, -yous, 6–8 -ious; β. 6 -uouse, -uus, 6– tempestuous.
[In the βform, ad. L. tempestuōs-us: cf. tempestu-s, collateral form of tempestās tempest; so obs. F. tempestueus, -uos (14th c.), mod.F. tempêtueux = Pr. tempestuos, Sp., Pg. tempestuoso. The αforms appear to be analogical, after other adjs. in -eous, -ious, of various etymology.]
1. Of, pertaining to, involving, or resembling a tempest; subject to or characterized by tempests; stormy, very rough or violent.
α1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxvii. (Percy Soc.) 194 It thondred loude wyth clappes tempestious. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV 18 b, A great tempesteous rage and furious storme. 1592Moryson Let. in Itin. i. (1617) 37 The weather was very tempestious, and not likely to change.
β1538Starkey England i. ii. 61 The trowblus and tempestuus see. 1538Elyot, Tempestuosum, tempestuous or stormy. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 501 A turbulent and tempestuous storme arose. 1639–40Laud Diary 25 Jan., A very blustering and a tempestuous day. 1799Ht. Lee Canterb. T., Old Wom. (ed. 2) I. 348 The weather grew lowering and tempestuous. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 121 The dangerous storms to which the south of Sicily was exposed after the rising of the tempestuous Orion.
2. transf. and fig. Characterized by violent agitation or commotion; turbulent, tumultuous; impetuous, passionate; agitated as by a tempest.
α1447[implied in tempesteuously: see next]. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxvii. (Percy Soc.) 120 O Mars! me succoure in tyme tempestyous. Ibid. xxxiv. 177 So shall you swage the tempesteous floode Of their stormy myndes. a1586Sidney Ps. xxxi. xi, In that tempestious hast, I said, that I from out thy sight was cast. 1710Brit. Apollo III. No. 25. 3/1 Tempestious Ills, in wild Confusion hurl'd.
β1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxiii. (Percy Soc.) 169 To the last ende of my matter troublous, With waves enclosed so tempestuous. 1648Herrick Hesper., Delight in Disorder, A winning wave (deserving note) In the tempestuous petticote. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn., Moles 21 The tempestuous persecutions of her own kindred. 1663Davenant Siege of Rhodes Wks. (1672) 2 The Shriller Trumpet and Tempestuous Drum. 1782F. Burney Cecilia viii. iv, Cecilia was still in this tempestuous state. 1865Swinburne Atalanta 1016 Fill the dance up with tempestuous feet. |