fleshquake

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  1. A trembling of the flesh. They may, blood-shaken then, Feel such a flesh-quake to possess their powers As they shall cry like ours. B. Jonson, Ode to Himself.

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  1. from flesh + quake; in imitation of earthquake.
 

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