a. [f. THUNDER + STRICKEN.]
1. lit. = THUNDERSTRUCK 1.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 310. Upon the Statue of Augustus there was inscribed Caesar. Now, it being thunderstriken,… the letter C was thereby blotted out.
1818. Byron, Ch. Har., IV. lxxxviii. Thou the thunder-stricken nurse of Rome! She-wolf!
1845. G. Murray, Islaford, 37. A thunder-stricken corse was found.
2. fig. = THUNDERSTRUCK 2.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1590), 291 b. She … stood as it were thunder-striken with amazement.
1780. Mrs. Thrale, Lett. to Johnson, 10 June. Mr. Thrale seems thunderstricken, he don’t mind anything.
1890. L. C. D’Oyle, Notches, 135. When Mrs. Low hastily lighted the lamp … and saw nothing, she was thunderstricken.
