What does "tempest" mean?
Tempest: Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
Additional senses
- 2.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. See Storm.
- 3.To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.] Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. Milton.
- 4.To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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