▪ I. quaking, vbl. n.
(ˈkweɪkɪŋ)
[f. quake v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. quake in various senses.
| c 825 Vesp. Psalter liv. 6 Eᵹe & cwaecung cwomun ofer mec. c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 504 Wæs se munt Garganus bifiᵹende mid ormætre cwacunge. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6894 Þat heo..steppe mid folle vot wiþoute quakinge. c 1374 Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 214 Turnid is in quakynge all my daunce. c 1450 Lydg. & Burgh Secrees 1652 Rennyng afftir mete and also rydyng,..cause wyl a seknesse callyd quakyng. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII (1550) 199 b, He and the Quene, and the Ladyes, fled out of their Palace..and sodeinly the quakyng seassed. 1656 Ridgley Pract. Physick 136 The Symptoms, as quaking, nauseating, do shew..new matter is recollected. 1855 Bain Sens. & Int. ii. iv. §18 (1864) 285 A tremulous quaking is the characteristic of Fear. 1875 Lyell Princ. Geol. II. ii. xxviii. 107 The incessant quaking of the ground for several successive months. |
† 2. spec. with ref. to the behaviour of the early Quakers; hence, Quakerism. Obs.
| 1653 H. R. Brief Rel. Irrelig. North. Quakers 17 Their Quakings are very like the Fits of that Child mentioned, Mark 9. 1669 (title) Truth Triumphant, in a Dialogue between a Papist and a Quaker..Wherein (I suppose) is made Manifest that Quaking is the Off-Spring of Popery. 1671 R. Head Eng. Rogue ii. xxxii. 307 Falling from Ranting to Quaking. |
▪ II. quaking, ppl. a.
(ˈkweɪkɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. a. That quakes, in senses of the vb.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 32 Seo cwaciᵹende swustor. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxvii. (Machor) 1018 Ȝeit þan with quaquand voice said he [etc.]. c 1440 Lydg. Secrees 334 With quakyng penne my consceyt to expresse. 1508 Dunbar Goldyn Targe 156 Schamefull Abaising, And quaking Drede. 1586 Warner Alb. Eng. i. v. (1612) 16 The queaking heards-man scarce had said thus much. 1728 Pope Dunc. ii. 292 Slow circles dimpled o'er The quaking mud, that clos'd, and op'd no more. 1842 Brande Dict. Science 1008 Quaking bog, peat bog..so saturated with water that a considerable extent of surface will quake or shake, when pressed on by the foot. 1875 Lyell Princ. Geol. II. iii. xliv. 510 Cattle venturing on a ‘quaking moss’ are often mired. |
b. quaking pudding (see quot. 1971), quaking tart.
| 1628 Quaking tart [see custard 1]. 1709 W. King tr. J. H. van Slonenbergh in Useful Trans. Philos. III. 52 White Bread and Butter and Quaking-pudding. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 112 Quaking Pudding..Cream..Eggs..Flour..boil it. 1971 R. Howe Mrs Groundes-Peace's Old Cookery Notebk. 119 Quaking pudding, a pudding made of breadcrumbs, cream, eggs and spices. |
† 2. That is, or befits, a Quaker; Quaker-. Obs.
| 1654 Burrough & Howgil Answ. Queries in Farmer Myst. Godl. & Ungodl. 37 A paper which was directed to Rich. Roper, and to his Quaking friend [etc.]. 1673 H. Hallywell Acc. Familism v. 94 If the Quaking Generation shall object and say, that this was under the Law. 1717 S. Centlivre Bold Stroke for a Wife Dram. Pers., Simon Pure, a quaking preacher. 1720 De Foe Capt. Singleton xi. (1840) 191 He..put it off with some quaking quibble. 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 310 Lydia's misfortunes commence from the source of quaking probity. |