The tender, tremulous Christian.
Dr. H. More.
— Trem"u*lous*ly, adv. — Trem"u*lous*ness, n.
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Tren (?), n. [See Treen wooden.] A fish spear. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
Tre"nail` (?), n. (Shipbuilding) Same as Treenail.
Trench (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trenched (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Trenching.] [OF. trenchier to cut, F. trancher; akin to Pr. trencar,
trenchar, Sp. trinchar, It. trinciare; of uncertain origin.] 1. To cut;
to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his soft flank.
Shak.
This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an
hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form.
Shak.
2. (Fort.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or
breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
Shak.
3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of
draining it.
4. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel
contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to
trench a garden for certain crops.
Trench, v. i. 1. To encroach; to intrench.
Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a
boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine
nature?