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tremulate, v. rare.|ˈtrɛmjʊleɪt|
[f. late L. tremulāre to tremble (Quicherat Addenda): see -ate3 5, 6.]
1. intr. To tremble, vibrate; to palpitate, quiver.
1749U. ap Rhys Tour Spain & Port. (1760) 92 Tender Limbs, that tremulate and wanton in the air. 1768[W. Donaldson] Life Sir B. Sapskull I. xiv. 137 His heart flutter'd! and the whole man was tremulating with affection! 1813T. Busby Lucretius II. iv. Comm. 34 The auditory nerve tremulates, and the brain is agitated.
2. trans. To cause to tremble or vibrate.
1764Grainger Sugar Cane iii. 205 The faint breeze oft flags on listless wings, Nor tremulates the cocos airiest arch. 1813T. Busby Lucretius I. iii. Comm. 8 No musician is provided..to tremulate the strings. Ibid. II. vi. Comm. 8 [The winds] tremulate whatever substances they encounter.
Hence ˈtremulated, ˈtremulating ppl. adjs.
1813T. Busby Lucretius I. ii. 467 Those colours which..Impress the tremulating nerves of sight. Ibid. II. iv. Comm. 27 Certain pulsations communicated to the air, by the tremulating organs of the voice. Ibid. 28 Substituting for his philosophy of vocal atoms, that of a tremulated medium. |
