tempest

A storm, especially one with severe winds.

Noun

A storm, especially one with severe winds.
- For a Tempeſt. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auſter and Boreas, and caſt them together in one Verſe. Add to theſe of Rain, Lightning, and of Thunder (the loudeſt you can) quantum ſufficit. Mix your Clouds and Billows well...
- BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike,...
- As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic. - 1847, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the...
Any violent tumult or commotion.
- Comforted with these reflections, the tempest of his soul subsided - 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the tempest...
A fashionable social gathering; a drum.

From Old French tempeste (French tempête), from Latin tempestas (“storm”), from tempus (“time, weather”). Displaced native Old English hrīþ.

To storm.
To disturb, as by a tempest.
- . . . the seal And bended dolphins play; part huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. - 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to...
- Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve, And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air. - 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Drowned Lover,”, in Poems from St. Irvyne: