a. Tossed by or as by a tempest. Hence Tempest-toss v. trans. and intr., to toss or pitch about as a tempest or a tempestuous sea; to agitate or be agitated violently; Tempest-tossing, violent agitation by or as by a tempest, etc.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., III. v. 138. The windes thy sighes … will ouer set Thy tempest tossed body. Ibid. (1605), Macb., I. iii. 25. Though his Barke cannot be lost, Yet it shall be Tempest-tost.
1681. Roxb. Ball. (1886), VI. 77. Where peevish coyness and disdain Do tempest-toss the mind.
1747. Francis, trans. Horace, Ep. I. xi. 19. Though by strong Winds your Bark were Tempest-tost.
1867. H. Macmillan, Bible Teach., xii. (1870), 233. Those very afflictions and tempest-tossings which the Church bewails.
1867. Eva Kinney Griffith, A Woman’s Evangel, xviii. 176. He says it was the lighthouse that kept him from the rocks when he was a tempest-tossed mariner.
