tremere

tremĕre [CL], ~ēre 1 to tremble, quiver, vibrate, shake; b (of flow or sim.). c to move with a trembling or quivering motion. ~et terra et fundamenta maris fluctuantur de profundo Gildas EB 60; tota tremens tellus Alcuin Carm. 6. 28.  b venti flant vel ~unt vel sibilant Aldh. PR 131; de pulsu caprizante, martellino ‥ et ~ente diffusius disputatur Bart. Angl. III 23.  c quare quedam avis semper ~at circa caudam Quaest. Salern. B 183. 2 to quake, tremble, shiver: a (from cold, sickness, or sim.). b (from fear, dread, or other emotion, also w. ad). c (trans.) to tremble at, to dread, fear. d (w. inf.) to fear (to). a eum [Cerberum] ~entem ab Orci regis inferni solio ‥ Alciden ‥ traxisse ‥ depromunt Lib. Monstr. II 14; inter aegra ~ens suspiria ‥ talia ‥ querebatur Bede HE II 13; ita maledictionis sententia septem annis devinxerat ut non solum in eodem loco toto corpore ~endo, verum etiam de loco ad locum cursitando, instabili ferretur motu Osb. Mir. Dunst. 8; tabescens fame et frigore ~ens P. Blois Ep. 102; ut caro ‥ pre frigore nimio ~eret atque rigeret Gir. GE II 10 p. 214.  b acies segnis ad pugnam ‥ ~entibus praecordiis inepta Gildas EB 19; qui non ~it ad tantum tonitruum non dormit sed mortuus est Anselm (Medit. 1) III 77; ad cujus rugitum ‥ dracones ~ebunt G. Mon. VII 3; quare irascens ~it? Quaest. Salern. Ba 40; districti judicii diem ubi ~ebunt [ME: cwakien] angeli AncrR 35.  c quos propensius morte ‥ ~ebant Gildas EB 23; ~ebunt illum [aprum] Arabes et Affricani G. Mon. VII 3; labor ille ruit quem dirus Araxes / et stantem tremuit et cecidisse dolet W. Malm. GR IV 351; mors ‥ firma frangit, alta premit, / nulli paret, nullum tremet Walt. Wimb. Van. 136.  d 1426 lolium pro tritico, falsum pro vero quis non ~eret permutare Conc. III 478a. 3 to cause to tremble. canes ‥ / latrantes que [sic] suis vocibus arva tremunt Gower VC I 380.