† to-shakev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To shake to pieces, shake asunder; to disperse or destroy by shaking.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > shake to pieces
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a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 214/34 Concutit, i. turbat, terreat, toscæcþ.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 570 He ða tosceoc þone lig of ðam ofne.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1647 Þu seyst þat gromes þe ivoþ..& þe to twiccheþ & to schakeþ.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxiv. 20 With shaking shal be to-shaken the erthe.
a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 742 Man and houndes, þat he tok Wiþ his toskes he al to-schok.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 240 The plauntis bigge a depper delf desireth And larger space, as wynd may hem to shake.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xii. xviii. 273 In the bloud of Adam death was taken, In the bloud of Christ it was all to shaken.
2. intransitive. To tremble, quiver, shiver violently.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > shake > shake violently
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a1300 Cursor Mundi 22552 All þe erth it sal toscak.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 2528 He broghte on þat brynnyng croke, A brennyng soule þat al to-shoke.
14.. Gosp. Nicodemus 797 Þe erth trembled and al toschoke.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 191 With the blast the leuis all toschake.
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