The Wonderful World Of Words, 3/30/17
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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!
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The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633
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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
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The Tempest
Giorgione, circa 1506
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Wow, I thought it meant a joker throwing a fit.
The comedian yestertempested when he realized his jokes didn't the audience laugh.
~sigh~
My dear, dear, @pompe72, whatever shall I do with you?? You make me chuckle!