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Tempestu(o)us, adj. Also: -ous, -i(o)us, -eous. [e.m.E. tempestuous, -ious, -yous, -eous (all 1509), -uus (1538), L. tempestuōs-.] Of weather, the sea, etc.: Stormy, violent, raging. Also in fig. context. 1513 Doug. vii Prol. 72.
Smale byrdis … Sekand … thame to hyde Fra feirfull thuddis of the tempestuus tyde 1531 Bell. Boece I xi.
Weddir louin and maist tempestius haill 1543 Reg. Morton II 289.
To pas to Invernes … and ther remane in ward in the sesioun of wynter to permut … the halsoum and warme air with cauld and tempestious air 1561–2 Reg. Privy C. I 200.
The tempestuous stormys of the last winter 1568 Hosack Mary Q. of Scots I 530.
She departed in haist … without respect of the intemperance of the wether and tempestuus air 1577 Reg. Privy S. VII 172/1.
For … reparaling … of the bulwork … of Dundie, quhilk be tempesteous wedder … wes ruinous 1600-1610 Melvill 169.
A grait mist, with a tempestous schoure 1615 Conv. Burghs III 13.
The raging of the tempestuous seas that daylie menases to bring doun in his house 1677 Edinb. B. Rec. X 327.
The extraordinary tempestuous wynd that wes upon Weddinsdayes night last 1685 Inverness Presb. 122.
Absent by reason of the tempestuous weatherfig. a1568 Kennedy in Bann. MS 53a/30.
The schip of faith, tempestuous wind and rane Dryvis in the see of lollerdry 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 57.
The tempestuous stermes and naufrage of mariage

b. transf. Of battle: Violent, raging. 1513 Doug. xi viii 111.
Thai haue als feill ded corpsis as haue we Gyf this tempestuus trake of the batale On baith the halfis is all owt equale