ppl. a. Forms: 4–5 astoneyd, 4–6 -yed, 5 -eyed, 5–6 astoyned, astonnyed, -ied, 6– astonied. Aphet. 4 stoneyd, stoneȝid. [A variant of prec.; pa. pple. of ASTONY v.] (Various writers have apparently fancied this word to be a derivative of stony, and used it as = petrified, in the transferred senses 2, 3, 4.)]
† 1. Stunned, stupefied, deprived of sensation; primarily by a blow, but subseq. also by anæsthetics, cold, etc.; insensible, benumbed, paralysed.
c. 1386. [see ASTONED 3].
c. 1450. Merlin, x. 164. He fill to the grounde astonyed.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. clxiii. 201. Sir Edwarde … strake hym suche a stroke on the helme with his swerde, that he was astonyed.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 451. The body and greeved place is only astonied, or made asleepe for a season.
1580. Baret, Alv., B 544. Benummed or astonied, a sleepe, without sence or feeling, Torpidus.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 323. Their feet will be immediatly benummed and astonied.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 87. The Sultan … gave him such a blow upon the head, as might have killed a bull, so that the Emperour … astonied, fell down from his horse.
1611. Cotgr., Gourdi, Benummed, astonied, stonnied.
† b. Of parts of the body: Rendered powerless, or functionless. Of the teeth: ‘set on edge.’ Obs.
c. 1350. Med. MS., in Archæol., XXX. 373. To veynes astonyid … ful of myth.
1388. Wyclif, Ecclus. xxx. 10. Thi teeth schulen be astonyed.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. lxxiii. (1495), 903. Synewes that ben astonyed other shronken.
2. Deprived for the moment of the power of action, dazed, paralysed. arch.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 880. Stifly astoneyd for ioye.
1388. Wyclif, Prov. xvi. 30. With iȝen astonyed.
1494. Fabyan, V. cxxvii. 108. They were so astonyed, that they myght not goo one foote forwarde.
1535. Coverdale, Job xxxvii. 1. My hert is astonnied, and moued out of his place.
1596. R. Linche, Poems (1877), 60. Stone-astonied, like a Deare at gaze.
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 890. Adam … Astonied stood and Blank, while horror chill Ran through his veins.
1850. Mrs. Browning, Poems, I. 319. And I astonied fell and could not pray.
3. Bewildered, filled with consternation, dismayed. arch.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1503. This Emelye astoneyd was, And seide, ‘What amounteth this, allas!’
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., Astonyed or a-stoyned yn mannys wytte, Attonitus, consternatus, stupefactus, perculsus.
1594. Mirr. Policie (1599), D. The part of a stout man is not to be astonied and cast downe in aduersity.
1611. Bible, Ezra ix. 3. I rent my garment and my mantle … and sate downe astonied.
1674. Gouldman, Lat. Dict., Stupefio, to be abashed or astonied.
1873. Miss Broughton, Nancy, i. 2. Might well hold up his hands in astonied horror.
4. Greatly surprised, amazed, astonished. arch.
c. 1400. Test. Love, III. (1560), 296 b/2. Hugelye tho was I astonied of this suddain adventure.
1535. Coverdale, 2 Chron. vii. 21. Euery one that goeth by, shall be astonnyed at this hye house.
1611. Chester, Dialogue (1878), 127. Within the night they shine so gloriously, That mans astonied senses they do feed.
1790. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Ep. J. Bruce, Wks. 1812, II. 353.
| Sweet is the Tale, however strange its air, | |
| That bids the public eye astonied stare. |
1857. Miss Winkworth, Tauler’s Life, 70. Your brethren in the convent were much astonied at you.
