Middle English Dictionary Entry
tempestǒus adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | tempestǒus adj. Also tempestouse, -uous, -es & tempestious, -us & tempestevous, -ivous; pl. tempestuouses. |
| Etymology | OF tempestos, tempesteus, tempestous, tempestuose & L tempestuōsus. |
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Associated quotations
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.5 : This see clepe I the tempestous [vrr. tempestuos, tempestious] matere Of disespeir that Troilus was inne.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)414/3 : A verri obediencer..rowiþ in þe same schip þoruout al þis tempestous see of þis wrecchid liif wiþ greet goostli prosperite.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (StJ-C C.25)212/9 : [Hrl: Þe soule of a man is possid up and doun in þis] tempestevous [see of þis world by grete wawis].
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.53/14 : The trowblys tempestuous wyndis vttirly rested them.
- c1429 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)590 : This is blissed Marye, of the see the ladere, Amanges the wawes tempestuouses, ledere and help singulere, Without wham we may noght this wawishe see ouerpasse.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.1739 : Of Mitridate registreth the viages..On lond and se tempestuous passages.
- a1450(1408) Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)185/1 : Þogh þere ben certeyn dayes assigned by auctors witnessynge þe whiche beeþ tempestous [vrr. tempestius, tempestes], ȝit..somtyme..þilke dayes beeþ as faire as othre.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)958 : I saugh..The see sommwhile ful hidouse Of wawes eke tempestouse.
- c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)1.15 : Worldely wawes..in this mortall see Have vs byset, withe grete aduersitee, The Rage of whiche is so tempestyuous, [etc.].