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单词 starkle
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starklev.

Forms: 1500s starcle, 1500s starkel, 1500s–1600s starkle, 1600s starckle.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: startle v.
Etymology: Apparently a variant of startle v. Compare slightly earlier starkling n.
Obsolete.
intransitive. Originally: to act in a hostile or threatening manner, to create a stir. Later also: to show signs of fear, quake, take fright.
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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > make gestures [verb (intransitive)]
beckonc950
becka1300
wevec1325
playc1330
to make a countenancea1375
signc1520
token1535
gesture1542
starkle?1544
scrawl1582
gesticulate1609
annuate1623
to make a motion1719
wink1738
motion1788
the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > shudder with fear
quakeOE
agriseOE
quavec1225
grisea1250
shiverc1250
aquake1303
tremble1303
gruec1330
shuddera1350
darea1400
gryec1400
grillc1420
fremishc1425
shrugc1440
oggle?a1475
hugge1483
starkle?1544
trepidate1623
quiver1670
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > behave threateningly > use threatening gestures
starkle?1544
?1544 J. Bale Epist. Exhortatorye f. xxiii You sturdye struggelers will somwhat starkle at this my homelye writinge, yet shall not that make me to leaue of.
?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) i. sig. Bv The boystuouse tyrauntes of Sodoma..wyll sturre abought them... Owr worldlye wyse brethren also, which are neither hote nor colde, will starcle a course at the matter.
1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xciijv Than stirt up Becket, and starkeled lyke a lyon, sekynge..to brynge the kynge vndre.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxi. 7) i. f. 265v/2 Although men starkled at him as at a monster [L. quamvis instar prodigii execrati sint eum homines].
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. xli. 71 This act of his made diuerse of the senatours..to starkle for feare of hazarding their estate.
a1624 Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 72 If those condemne you for altering of your course, I cannot blame you to starkle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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