ppl. a. [f. STARTLE v. + -ED1.] In senses of the verb.

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c. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XVII. 269. The same hand giuing wing To martiall Phorcis startled soule.

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1648.  J. Beaumont, Psyche, IX. xlvii. All upright staring stand her startled Hairs Of one another’s touch in jealous dread.

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1764.  Oxf. Sausage, 59. Whether the plaintive Voice Of Laundress shrill awake my startled Ear; Or [etc.].

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1808.  Scott, Marmion, II. Introd. 43. The startled quarry bounds amain.

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1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. xi. 84. Uttering a startled shout as he went down the declivity.

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1885.  ‘Mrs. Alexander,’ At Bay, vi. He woke with a startled sense of wrong-doing.

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