ppl. a. Also 6 -ist, 7 -isht. [f. ASTONISH + -ED.]

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  † 1.  Bereft of sensation; stunned, benumbed. Obs.

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1576.  Baker, Gesner’s Jewell of Health, 50 a. The water doth lyke recover astonished or benummed partes of the body.

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1615.  Crooke, Body of Man, 460. Who lay … apoplecticall or astonished.

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1658.  Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 1106. This cures the nerves relaxed, contracted, astonished.

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  † 2.  Stunned or paralysed mentally, bereft of one’s wits; stupefied, bewildered. Obs.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VIII. iii. 59. Pallas, astonyst of sa hie a name.

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1580.  Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 5. Musidorus … had his wits astonished with sorrow.

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1670.  Milton, Hist. Brit., II. 502. Blind, astonished, and struck with superstition as with a planet; in one word, Monks.

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  3.  Filled with consternation; dismayed. arch.

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1653.  Crashaw, Sacr. Poems, 147. Th’ astonish’d nymphs their flood’s strange fate deplore.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., iv. 728 (R.). With Rage inflam’d, astonish’d with Surprise.

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1790.  Burns, Tam O’Shanter. But Maggie stood right sair astonish’d.

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  4.  Amazed, full of surprised wonder.

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1718.  Pope, Iliad, VII. 105. This fierce defiance Greece astonish’d heard.

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1781.  Gibbon, Decl. & F., III. 228. Beaten to death with sticks, before the eyes of the astonished emperor.

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1810.  Southey, Kehama, XXIII. ix. The towers of Yamenpur Rise on the astonish’d sight.

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