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tempestuate

verb

Etymology

From tempest + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

  1. derived from tempestas
  2. derived from tempeste
  3. formed as tempestuate — “tempest + -ate”

Definitions

  1. To stir up

    To stir up; to make tempestuous.

    • In truth, as it is said in the second Psalm, God only " laughs " at their rage : that is, He winks, as it were, and leaves them to tempestuate, as though the matter did not at all belong to Him.
    • Creature-smiles stop and entice away the affections from Jesus Christ; creature-frowns encompass and tempestuate the spirit, that it thinks it does well to be angry; both ways, grace is a loser.
    • It is true, that reference to the horrors of the Romish Inquisition, as well as other cruelties practised by the church and court of Rome, is sufficient to curdle our blood, but it must not tempestuate our spirits, or make them wax hot.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA