ppl. a. [pa. pple. of prec. vb., taking the place of the earlier benomen, benome, pa. pple. of benim: see BENUMB ppl. a.]

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  Rendered torpid or numb; deprived of strength or the power of motion by a chilling influence. lit. and transf. as in BENUMB v. 1 and 2.

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1547.  Boorde, Brev. Health, cclxxi. 90 b. The one legge and the one arme is benomed or astouned.

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1624.  Capt. Smith, Virginia, III. ii. 46. They chafed his benummed limbs.

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1691.  Norris, Pract. Disc., 174. The torpid and benumm’d World.

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1704.  J. Trapp, Abra-Mulé, II. i. 440. To melt the most benumn’d of Hearts.

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1861.  Geo. Eliot, Silas M., 12. Silas Marner’s benumbed faith.

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1870.  Hawthorne, Eng. Note-Bks. (1879), II. 34. Our benumbed bodies.

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