单词 | tempest of weather |
释义 | > as lemmastempest of weather(s) h. Violent wind accompanied by heavy rain or agitation of the waves. Now dialect and Nautical †Also, a storm, tempest; often pleonastically, weather storm, tempest of weather(s). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather weatherc888 unweatherc950 weatheringa1450 rough-weather1833 gurl1880 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxviii. §1 Ða gestod hine heah weder & stormsæ. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 53 Mid wolcnen & mid wedere heo þoleden wen-siðes. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3055 Moyses, do ðis weder charen, And gu sal [ic] leten vt-faren. c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules v. 681 Now welcom somer, with thy sonne softe, That hast this wintres weders over-shake. a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 5794 Þe wederes stronge & tempestes..hem duden grete molestes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6018 Þe seuend on-sand [sc. of the plagues of Egypt]..Was a weder ful selcut snell. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxii. 144 Þer es neuermare..nowþer thunner ne leuenyng, haile ne snawe, ne oþer tempestez of ill weders. 1402 Polit. Poems (Rolls) II. 44 To were us from wederes of wynteres stormes. c1420 Wyntoun Cron. vii. x. 3278 And þar be a tempest fel Off gret wedderis scharpe and snel. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxx. 114 Whan thenne they had ronne & saylled so moche that they were in the highe see a stronge weddre arose. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. (1812) I. cccxxiv. 506 This rayne and wether endured tyll the sonne rose. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. xii. 18 Ye are not come..to myst and darcknes and tempest of wedder [Gk. θυέλλῃ]. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 303 There are gendered tempastes of weder and hayle. 1531 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 26 Tempestes of wedder or stormes. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxviiiv And so by mokel duresse of wethers & of stormes..I was driuen to an yle. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 106 b Diogenes beeyng vpon the Sea emong a number of naughtie packes in a greate storme of wether, when diuerse of these wicked felowes cried out for feare of drownyng, [etc.]. 1598 in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870) II. 27 [They] alegeit thai war impeidit be storme of wedder. 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland i. 10 Upon these Signs Ships either get up their Anchors, or slip their Cables and put to Sea, and ply off and on till the Weather is over. 1718 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1902) VI. 212 The Master and the other Servant, running through the Weather towards the Houses, were both struck dead. 1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. v ‘Then don't be late,’ said he, ‘there's weather coming.’ 1898 Morning Post 11 Nov. 5/2 Wasn't it a beautifully disciplined Mess, though? I wish you could see 'em at sea in weather. < as lemmas |
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