eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) liv. 5 (6) Timor et tremor uenerunt super me : ege & cwaecung cwomun ofer mec.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxiv. 467 Ða..wæs se munt Garganus biuiende mid ormætere cwacunge.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6894 (MED) Þat heo ne steppe mid folle vot wiþoute quakinge.

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 304 (MED) Also..it be sett bytwixe þe ij schuldris for swownynge & for quakinge of þe herte [L. tremori cordis].

c1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 214 Turned is in quakyng al my daunce.

a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 8349 (MED) Quaking þat somtime liȝtly Falleþ to a man in his body, It comeþ of flewmes þat ben colde.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxcix^v He and the Quene, and the Ladyes, fled out of their Palace..& sodeinly the quakyng seassed.

1607 E. Sharpham Cupid's Whirligig iv. i. sig. G2 Kni. But how doo'st knowe she is with childe. Sla. Knowe it, why shee's dayly troubled with water panges, and quakings ouer her stomacke.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 136 The Symptoms, as quaking, nauseating, do shew..new matter is recollected.

1710 R. Collins Way make Nation Happy 9 The terrible Quaking of the Mountain, shook the Foundations of his Heart.

1785 H. Swinburne Trav. in Two Sicilies II. v. 33 In 1538, after previous notice by repeated quakings, the convulsed earth burst asunder.

1797 J. Farington Diary 8 Feb. (1923) I. liv. 190 Taverner had much quaking about shewing his pictures, which raised their reputation.

1811 L. Aikin Juvenile Corr. 138 Three tall aspens..amused us with the quaking of their leaves, which neuer ceased to twinkle and rustle in the air.

1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. iv. 285 A tremulous quaking is the characteristic of Fear.

1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. ii. xxviii. 107 The incessant quaking of the ground for several successive months.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 127/2 It did turn out just as we had planned, and even better! We will admit, however, that we had our share of qualms and quakings.

1958 Times 6 Jan. 9/3 Amid the rejoicing there is a slight quaking of heart.

1992 Burlington Mag. Mar. 202/2 His pencil, brush and modelling knife..are seen as seismographic needles registering inner quakings—emotional, philosophical, psychological.

1653 G. Fox Saul's Errand Damascus 32 A large Petition being read, wherein was something against quaking and trembling.

1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xxxii. sig. V4^v Falling from Ranting to Quaking.

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.

1707 G. Keith Magick of Quakerism 23 As much mistaken, as those have been who attributed the Quakers quakings, to some diabolical Possession generally.

1733 J. Besse Abstr. Sufferings Quakers I. x. 243 When George calmly reproved him for his hard Speeches, he deridingly bid him Go Quake. George asked him, Whether he despis'd Quaking.

1851 B. J. Lossing Pict. Field-bk. Revol. I. 450 The Quaker sect..received their name from the peculiar shaking or quaking of their bodies and limbs while preaching.

1855 Times 18 Sept. 6/4 Who ever heard that a Quaker had just been convicted of drunkenness and riotous behaviour in the streets? The riotous behaviour and the drunkenness exclude the possibility of quaking.

1959 A. Huxley Let. 12 Aug. (1969) 874 Subud is simply a technique for reproducing the quaking of the early Quakers—a release via the muscles.

2006 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 17 June p8 It is the ‘shaking’ of the Shakers and the ‘quaking’ of the Quakers that fascinate me.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) ii. 16 Seo swuster eallum limum egeslice cwacode... Seo cwacigende swustor eode..to ðam halgan cyðere.

1253 in Church Stretton (1904) 2.157 [As far as the] Quakinggebrugge.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 48^v An euen, clere & stronge, byndinge, & plyaunt voys..is good..Þe contrarye is a quakynge [L. tremula] voys, hoos & rouȝ, febil & discordinge.

c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) 334 With quakyng penne my consceyt to expresse.

c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 1018 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 30 Ȝeit þan with quaquand voice sad he [etc.].

1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 188 Schamefull Abaising, And quaking Drede.

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. i. v. 14 The quaking [1612 queaking] Heards-man scarce had said thus much.

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxvi. sig. E12^v Quaking Tarts, and quiuering Custards, and such milke-sop Dishes.

1676 in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. XII. 556 [I] could not make the s[ai]d way Sufficient for Cattle to goe over; by Reason of the Rottenness of the ground, being a Quaking mire w[hi]ch hath noe foundation for a way.

1708 T. Baker Fine Lady's Airs iii. i. 26 The quaking Sempstress had n't the Assurance to ask me above the rent of her Shop.

1792 G. Crabbe Let. 1 Oct. in Sel. Lett. & Jrnls. (1985) i. 51 Give me a wild, wide Fen, in a foggy Day; with quaking Boggy ground.

1824 M. A. Shee Alasco iv. iv. 116 Who is the quaking renegade that dares Insult us with such counsel?

1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xliv. 510 Cattle venturing on a ‘quaking moss’ are often mired.

1959 Times 10 July 8/6 A quaking fear seizes every English stomach before the Encierro begins.

1994 B. A. Staples Parallel Time viii. 121 Erasers and lengths of chalk that thumped and thwacked off the board near her quaking hand.

1653 Querers & Quakers (title page) The Quaking and entransed faction discovered to be a new branch of an old root, revived by Satan.

1673 H. Hallywell Acct. Familism v. 94 If the Quaking Generation shall object and say, that this was under the Law.

1718 S. Centlivre Bold Stroke for Wife Dramatis Personæ Simon Pure, a Quaking Preacher.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 201 He..put it off with some Quaking Quibble.

1772 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (rev. ed.) 483 Being what we call a Quaker, the church refus'd the quaking hound His length of consecrated ground.

1628 R. Knevet Στρατιοτικον sig. E2 Who could match the Kerne, or Galloglasse, That on the quaking Boggs as safely passe, As we on firmest plaines.

1719 J. Breval Mac-Dermot i. 2 None knew, like him, o'er quaking Bogs to tread, Or sing melodious Dirges o'er the dead.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1008/1 Quaking bog, peat bog..so saturated with water that a considerable extent of surface will quake or shake, when pressed on by the foot.

1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs ii. 30 Some of the Springs country was very light and some was quaking bog.

1998 Nature Conservancy Jan. 27/3 The expanded preserve protects a unique quaking fen, a quaking bog and other forested wetlands.

a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 210 A plain Quaking-Pudding. Take about three Pints of new morning Milk, and six or seven new laid Eggs, Putting away half the whites [etc.].

1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xi. 9 Her Buttocks trembled when she Stirr'd, like a Quaking-Pudding.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 112 Quaking Pudding..Cream..Eggs..Flour..boil it.

1851 A. L. Webster Improved Housewife (ed. 14) 80 Quaking Pudding. Cut twelve ounces of baker's bread into slices, beat eight eggs to a froth.

1899 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 13 Jan. Quaking pudding is also eaten warm.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Feb. 98 Quaking Pudding—a tremulous lump of paradise gently flavoured with cinnamon—arrived with a card explaining its 17th-century roots.

1607 B. Jonson Volpone Prol. sig. A4^v As a token Of his Playes worth, No egges are broken; Nor quaking Custards with feirce teeth affrighted. View more context for this quotation

1629 J. Shirley Wedding iv. i. sig. H^v To shew fencing vpon Creame And cake-bread, murder a quaking Custard, Or some such daring enemy.

1650 A. Cowley Guardian i. iii. sig. A4^v Away, you puff, you kickshaw, you quaking custard.

1845 E. Stone Chrons. Fashion I. 4 Another most strange custom at this period..was to have a huge ‘Quaking Custard’ on the table, into which..the City Fool suddenly leapt over the heads of the astonished feasters, who were instantly bespattered with this rich and savoury mud.

1884 M. J. Lincoln Boston Cook Bk. 346 Quaking Custard.—The same proportions as in Spanish Cream.

1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Feb. c6 A quaking custard is made with milk, eggs and sugar and cooked until thickened. Softened gelatin is added and whipped cream and beaten egg whites are folded in.

1994 R. Sax Classic Home Desserts 117/2 Spanish cream... Similar creams are named variously ‘Charleston Snow Cream’ and ‘New England Quaking Custard’.

1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giii A quakinge chet or a red shanke, a drake or ducke.