tempestous

comparative more tempestous · superlative most tempestous

1. obsoleteObsolete form of tempestuous.

   The day was tempestous with rain and with wind, / Even chargers were seen to draw back; […]

   1831, George Muir, “The Coursing Match. Canto I.”, in The Sports of the Field, […], Lanark, Lanarkshire: […] George Roberton, →OCLC, page 10

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   I wyl aduertise you that this Boke is named the Shyp of foles of the worlde: For this worlde is nought els but a tempestous se in the whiche we dayly wander and are caste in dyuers tribulacions paynes and aduersitees: some by ignoraunce and some by wilfulnes: wherfore such doers ar worthy to be called foles.

   1509 December 24 (Gregorian calendar), Alexander Barclay, “[The Argument]”, in Sebastian Brant, translated by Alexander Barclay, edited by T[homas] H[ill] Jamieson, The Ship of Fools, volume I, Edinburgh: William Paterson; London: Henry Sotheran & Co., published 1874, →OCLC, page 18

   And now, he has got us, or, rather, has got himself and the Honourable House, riding on a stormy and tempestous wave and seated upon a short and narrow Plank; a situation that I really could wish to see nobody in; no, not even (when I recollect what tempestous waves are) the punning Orator himself; […]

   1821 March 24, William Cobbett, “Naples”, in Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume 38, number 12, London: […] C[harles Robert] Clement [for] John M. Cobbett, […], published 12 March 1825, →OCLC, column 828

   Like all other sea birds, Albatrosses can be most easily enticed into biting during tempestous weather when, having been prevented for days from procuring their regular amount of food, the pangs of hunger overcome their natural distrust.

   1887 January, Frederic A[ugustus] Lucas, “Notes of a Bird Catcher”, in J[oel] A[saph] Allen, editor, The Auk: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, volume IV (New Series; volume XII overall), number I, New York, N.Y.: L. S. Foster for the American Ornithologists’ Union, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 1–2