TREMBLING Copy link • TREMBLING 1. participial adjective, tremens: tremebundus (in a single case): tremulus (also of a lasting state; all three of persons and things). Written with a trembling hand, vacillantibus literuis scriptus (after Cic., Fam., 16, 15, 2; ☞ littera manu pressa tremente labat, Ov.). A trembling hand, manus tremebunda or tremula (e.g., of a drunken man); manus intremiscens (e.g., of a surgeon performing an operation): a trembling voice, tremebunda vox. 2. s. tremor: horror (shuddering with cold, etc.). Trembling seizes me, contremisco; exhorresco; horror me perfundit (Cic., poetical); tremor, horror occupat membra mea, artus meos.