ETYMOLOGY
adj.: from Latin trepidatus, past participle of trepidare
vb.: participial stem of trepidare (to hurry, bustle, be agitated or alarmed)
EXAMPLE
“…The celestiall spheres in continuall volubilitye..their diurnall or daylye course from the East to the West, their retrograde and vyolent motion from the West to the East, their trepidat motion from the South to the North…”
From: A Confutation of Atheisme
By John Dove, 1605
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