Tempest
Tempest , noun
[Old French tempeste, French tempête, (assumed) Late Latin tempesta, from Latin tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See Temporal of time.]
1.
An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled,
Each on his rock transfixed.
2.
Figuratively: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
3.
Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like.
Tempest , transitive verb
[Compare Old French tempester, French tempêter to rage.]
To disturb as by a tempest. [Obsolete]
Part huge of bulk
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean.
Tempest , intransitive verb
To storm. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson