arch. [f. prec. sb.; chiefly in pa. pple.] To strike with apoplexy, paralyze, benumb.
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. iv. 73. Sure, that sense Is apoplex’d.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., III. 160. Finding her husband … apoplext in all his limbes. Ibid., VIII. 403. To apoplex all the vitall spirits.
1813. Byron, Let., Wks. 1832, II. 269. If suddenly apoplexed, would he rest in his grave?
