a. Obs. [a. AF. tempestous, OF. -eus, ad. L. type *tempestōs-us, for L. tempestuōs-us; in It. tempestoso, Prov. tempestos and tempestuos (Littré).] = TEMPESTUOUS 1, 2.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, II. Proem, 5. This see clepe I þe tempestous matere Of desper þat Troylus was Inne.
c. 1500. Three Kings Sons, 131. If bifore dyner he were hote and tempestous, now is he colde and sobre.
1508. Fisher, 7 Penit. Ps. xxxviii. 1. Wks. (1876), 69. The tempestous trybulacyons wherwith the herte of synners is troubled & vexed.
