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contremescere

contremescere, ~iscere [CL] , to tremble. b (w. indir. qu.) to dread. coram te totus ~esco nec oculis te contemplari audeo Lantfr. Mir. et Transl. Swith. B 391; artus ~iscere, obrigescere, frons rubescere R. Cold. Cuthb. 63; s1250 sic totus ~iscet paganismus M. Par. Maj. V 135 (cf. ib. 387: ~uit pre angustia); s1381 corda hominum ‥ a timore ~uerunt Knighton Cont. II 142.  b major [Leycestrie] ‥ conterritus et quid in casu sibi ipsi contrario faceret ~escens Knighton Cont. II 142.

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