ppl. a. Also 3 stungen, 4 stongyn, 7 stung’d. [See STING v.] Wounded or hurt by a sting. lit. and fig.

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c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 3901. Quat stungen man so saȝ ðor on, ðat werk him sone al was vn-don.

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a. 1400.  Stockholm Med. MS., ii. 687, in Anglia, XVIII. 324. Dragaunce is good To drynkyn for a stongyn man.

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1600.  Surflet, Country Farm, I. xii. 85. If any rat, spider,… or other venemous beast, by his sting or biting haue caused your flesh to rise … put vpon the stung place the dung of a cow or oxe very hot.

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1605.  Shaks., Lear, V. i. 56. Each iealous of the other, as the stung Are of the Adder.

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1609.  Markham, Famous Whore (1868), 31. My well stung’d conscience vrg’d me to repent.

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1786.  trans. Beckford’s Vathek (1883), 24. The stung eunuch could scarcely preserve the semblance of respect.

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1820.  Byron, Mar. Fal., III. i. 102. When he, their last descendant chief, Stands plotting … With stung plebeians.

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1866.  G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., v. (1878), 63. I prayed God to keep me from feeling stung and proud.

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