Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Tempestá-re, v. n.
1. to be tempestuous, foam, bluster; 2. to agitate with noise and frequency;3. to resound, re-echo; 4. (fig.) to rage, rave; v. a. 1. to beat furiously; 2. to disturb, trouble; 3. to instigate, importune.— il pan nel forno, to endanger security itself. — alcuna cosa di gemme, to enrich any thing with gems, &c.; adj. Tempestá-nte.
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tempestare: to tempest, to storme, to bluster. Also to fall as thicke as haile. Also to engraile, to beset or empaile with precious stones.