† ˈchurch-quake Obs.
[after earthquake.]
A convulsion of the church.
| 1642 W. Sedgwicke Zions Deliv. (1643) 7 We could not expect our Reformation without Earth-quakes, Church-quakes, and Kingdome-quakes. 1645 W. Hooke New-Englands Sence 25 There hath been both a Church-quake and a State-quake in that land. |