Obs. [after earthquake.] A convulsion of the church.
1642. W. Sedgwicke, Zions Deliv. (1643), 7. We could not expect our Reformation without Earth-quakes, Church-quakes, and Kingdome-quakes.
1645. W. Hooke, New-Englands Sence, 25. There hath been both a Church-quake, and a State-quake in that Land.