TEMPESTED
Verb
tempested
simple past tense and past participle of tempest
Source: Wiktionary
TEMPEST
Tem"pest, n. Etym: [OF. tempeste, F. tempĂȘte, (assumed) LL. tempesta, fr. L. 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. Milton.
2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
3. 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.
Syn.
– Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.
Tem"pest, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. tempester, F. tempĂȘter to rage.]
Definition: To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.] Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. Milton.
Tem"pest, v. i.
Definition: To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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