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Today's word was a tough one to research and we discovered little information on it or its origins, however we found it too quaint to not feature!

http://i.imgur.com/cdqfQpM.jpg >The Storm on the Sea of Galilee Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633 ---- ------ ----- ----- http://i.imgur.com/3Q4Y9GO.png **DEFINITION:** >Noun The day immediately preceeding the last tempest **ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:** >As best we may tell, "yestertempest" was coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins, referenced below. While both "yester tempest" and "yester-tempest" had apparently been in use for quite some time prior, we could find no examples nor origins. >"Yester", however, dates back to 157-80 and has its origin in Middle English and Old English "geostran", "giestro". **PRONUNCIATION:** >[yes-ter-tem-pist] **SCRABBLE SCORE:** >20, but it is not considered an official Scrabble word **USAGE AND EXAMPLES** >Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows | flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- >Built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs | they throng; they glitter in marches. >Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, | wherever an elm arches, >Shivelights and shadowtackle ín long | lashes lace, lance, and pair. >Delightfully the bright wind boisterous | ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare >Of "YESTERTEMPEST'S" creases; | in pool and rut peel parches >Squandering ooze to squeezed | dough, crust, dust; stanches, starches >Squadroned masks and manmarks | treadmire toil there >Footfretted in it. Million-fuelèd, | nature's bonfire burns on. >But quench her bonniest, dearest | to her, her clearest-selvèd spark >Man, how fast his firedint, | his mark on mind, is gone! >Both are in an unfathomable, all is in an enormous dark >Drowned. O pity and indig | nation! Manshape, that shone >Sheer off, disseveral, a star, | death blots black out; nor mark > Is any of him at all so stark >But vastness blurs and time | beats level. Enough! the Resurrection, >A heart's-clarion! Away grief's gasping, | joyless days, dejection. > Across my foundering deck shone >A beacon, an eternal beam. | Flesh fade, and mortal trash >Fall to the residuary worm; | world's wildfire, leave but ash: > In a flash, at a trumpet crash, >I am all at once what Christ is, | since he was what I am, and >This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, | patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, > Is immortal diamond. --That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1985 ---- ---- ---- http://i.imgur.com/eXvpXNE.jpg >The Tempest Giorgione, circa 1506 ------ ------

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