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tempestuate

tempestuate verb: to stir up; to make tempestuous.

Verb

tempestuate (third-person singular simple present tempestuates, present participle tempestuating, simple past and past participle tempestuated)

  1. (obsolete) 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.1548 October 22, John Calvin, Letter to the Duke of Somerset
    • 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

Forms of tempestuate

third-person singular presenttempestuates
present participletempestuating
past participletempestuated
pasttempestuated

Origin of tempestuate

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

Questions about tempestuate

What does tempestuate mean?
Tempestuate means to stir up; to make tempestuous.
What part of speech is tempestuate?
Tempestuate is a verb.
What is the past tense of tempestuate?
The past tense of tempestuate is tempestuated.

Words near tempestuate in the dictionary

  1. tempestous
  2. tempests
  3. tempests in tea-kettles
  4. tempests in teacups
  5. tempests in teapots
  6. tempestuate
  7. tempestuated
  8. tempestuates
  9. tempestuating
  10. tempestuosities
  11. tempestuosity

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