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tempestuate en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To stir up; to make tempestuous.
   • As if God's will in the matter had somehow become unreasonable, and required conjurations of manner, to recover it, or as if God must needs be tempestuated by the suitor, in order to be successfully carried. 1990, The Chicago Theological Seminary Register - Volumes 80-81, page 22:
   • 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. 1751, Joseph Eliot, The Life of Faith Exemplified and Recommended, in a Letter found in the Study of a Reverend Divine, Deceased, page 3:
   • 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. 1843, England's Deliverance, and England's Duty: A sermon preached at St. Stephen's, Islington, On Sunday, November 5th, 1843, page 6:
   • 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. 1548 October 22, John Calvin, Letter to the Duke of Somerset:

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