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   Tempest , n. [OF. tempeste, F. tempête, (assumed) LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See Temporal of time.]
   An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
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   [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled,
   Each on his rock transfixed.
   Milton.
   
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   Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
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   A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4. [Archaic]
   Smollett.
   
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   ☞ Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like.
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   Syn. -- Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.
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   Tempest, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. tempêter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]
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   Part huge of bulk
   Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
   Tempest the ocean.
   Milton.
   
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   Tempest, v. i. To storm. [Obs.]
   B. Jonson.
   
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