Now dial. Also 4, 7 stund, 5 stond. [Aphetic var. of ASTOUND v., or extended form of STOUN v.]
1. trans. To stun as with a blow; to stupefy, benumb; to stupefy with astonishment, bewilder.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 7558. Quat! wyns þou i am a hund, Wit þi stans me for to stund?
a. 1420. Aunters of Arthur, xlvii. 602 (Douce MS.). The knighte of corage was cruel and kene, And withe a stele bronde þat sturne oft stonded.
1587. Harrison, England, III. vii. 231/1, in Holinshed. Mastiffes … take also their name of the word mase and theefe … bicause they often stound and put such persons to their shifts.
1600. Holland, Livy, I. xli. 24. That the king was stounded with a sudden blow [L. sopitum fuisse regem subito ictu] but the weapon did not go very deep into his body.
1609. T. Heywood, Brit. Troy, XII. xci. 262. But him the Woorthy stounded with a blow.
a. 1617. Bayne, Lect. (1634), 302. The Chirurgion bindeth and stoundeth before cutting, that the patient may be lesse grieved.
1629. in Bibl. Regia, II. 236. The fatal blow given your most loyal servant … hath so stounded our University as (like a body without a soul) she stirs not.
1672. Marvell, Reh. Transp., I. 218. They are slain every mother’s son of them. Yet perhaps they are but stounded and may revive again.
1678. Bunyan, Pilgr., I. 221. At the sight … of this River, the Pilgrims were much stounded.
1689. Dialogue Timothy & Titus, 4. I’le protest you’ve stunded me.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Stound. 1. To stun. 2. To overcome with astonishment.
† 2. intr. To be bewildered or at a loss.
1531. in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 98. The seid Mayer and Burgeys many tymes stound and be in grett ambuyguyte to execute such old graunts.
