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trepidation|trɛpɪˈdeɪʃən|
[ad. L. trepidātiōn-em, n. of action fr. trepidāre: see prec. Cf. F. trépidation (15th c.).]
1. Tremulous agitation; confused hurry or alarm; confusion; flurry; perturbation.
1607–12Bacon Ess., Of Seditions & Troub. (Arb.) 414 There vseth to be more trepidacion in Courtes vponn the breaking out of troubles then were fitt. a1639Wotton Election Dk. Venice in Reliq. (1651) 176 The success of that great day, in such trepidation of the State made every man meritorious. 1780Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 9 June, They did their work at leisure..without trepidation, as men lawfully employed. 1796F. Burney Camilla I. 323 Miss Margland..in equal trepidation from anger and from fear. 1879M. Arnold Mixed Ess., Geo. Sand 318, I found a large party assembled. I entered with some trepidation.
2. Tremulous, vibratory, or reciprocating movement; vibration; oscillation, rocking; an instance of this; also, involuntary trembling of the limbs, as in paralytic affections; tremor.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. ii. §8 Massiue bodies..haue certaine trepidations and wauerings, before they fixe and settle. 1696J. Edwards Demonstr. Exist. & Provid. God i. p. xii, Earth-quakes and trepidations of the earth. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 1 ⁋13 My impatience..will not suffer me to attend any longer the trepidations of the balance. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 227 A considerable degree of trepidation reached occasionally to her finger's end. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) II. 240 The trepidation of the body struck perpetually generates a new sound. 1899Syd. Soc. Lex., Trepidation, a rhythmic movement of the foot in certain forms of paraplegia and in epilepsy.
3. Astron. A libration of the eighth (or ninth) sphere, added to the system of Ptolemy by the Arab astronomer Thabet ben Korrah, c 950, in order to account for certain phenomena, esp. precession, really due to motion of the earth's axis.
a1631Donne Valedict. Poems (1633) 193 Moving of th' earth brings harmes and feares, Men reckon what it did and meant, But trepidation of the spheares, Though greater farre, is innocent. 1653[see trepidate v.]. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 483 They pass the Planets seven, and pass the fixt, And that Crystalline Sphear whose ballance weighs The Trepidation talkt, and that first mov'd. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 52 Up presently to the primum-mobile, and the trepidation of the firmament. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 532/2 Thabet ben Korrah..about a.d. 950..revived an old notion..(not mentioned by Ptolemy, but by Theon [a.d. 385]) of a variation in the position of the ecliptic, which has been called a trepidation. |