sb. Chiefly poet. a. A peal or clap of thunder. b. A stroke of ‘thunder.’ Also fig.
13[?]. Cursor M., 18075 (Cott.). Þar come a steuen als thoner blast.
c. 1440. Bone Flor., 1643. Hys doghtur schulde be strekyn downe Wyth a thonder blaste.
1558. Phaër, Æneid, I. C j b. My son, that of the thunderblastes of hye Joue setst but light.
1839. Bailey, Festus, xxiii. (1854), 414. Be still, ye thunderblasts and hills of fire!
1884. Tennyson, Becket, III. iii. The Pope’s last letters … threaten The immediate thunder-blast of interdict.
So Thunder-blasted a., blasted with ‘thunder,’ struck by lightning.
1614. Jackson, Creed, III. xvi. § 5. God will not haue true faith thunderblasted in the tender blade.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xi. Our thunder-blasted dinner.
a. 1849. Poe, To One in Paradise, 19. The thunder-blasted tree.
