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trepidation (medicine)


trepidation


1. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.

2. Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.

3. A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.

Synonym: Tremor, agitation, disturbance, fear.

Origin: F. Trepidation, L. Trepidatio, fr. Trepidare to hurry with alarm, to tremble, from trepidus agitated, disturbed, alarmed; cf. Trepit he turns, Gr. To turn, E. Torture.

Source: Websters Dictionary


acquit (oh)



[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: acquiter, from quite 'free of']
[T usually passive] to give a decision in a court of law that someone is not guilty of a crime
::All the defendants were acquitted.
acquit sb of sth
::The judge directed the jury to acquit Phillips of the murder.
acquit yourself well/honourably
to do something well, especially something difficult that you do for the first time in front of Other people