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Webster 1913 Edition
Tempestive
Tem-pes′tive
,Adj.
[L.
tempestivus
.] Seasonable; timely;
as,
. tempestive
showers[Obs.]
Heywood.
– Tem-pes′tive-ly
, adv.
[Obs.]
Definition 2024
tempestive
tempestive
English
Adjective
tempestive (comparative more tempestive, superlative most tempestive)
- (obsolete) seasonable; timely
- Heywood
- tempestive showers
- Heywood
Derived terms
Latin
Adjective
tempestīve
- vocative masculine singular of tempestīvus
References
- tempestive in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tempestive in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- TEMPESTIVE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tempestive”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.