This archaic form is still used.
1790. I am not a little surprised at the revival of the word stricken, after being disused for centuries.—Noah Webster in the American Mercury: Mass. Spy, Aug. 26. [An odd remark for a lexicographer to make!]
1794. “The Petition of the Ancient Participle Stricken,” to be laid on the shelf, appeared in the American Minerva: Gazette of the U.S., Phila., Jan. 9.
1808. Bricks not yet dried are called “newly stricken bricks.”—Advt., The Repertory, Boston, Nov. 22.
1820. He had been stricken with a paralytick affection in July.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 15.
1860. I am ready to be cross-examined by any gentleman who advocates this section that I am trying to have stricken out.—Mr. James Craig of Missouri, House of Repr., Dec. 13: Cong. Globe, p. 89/1.
1860. Is it not strange that those who occupy this position come here complaining that their rights have been stricken down?—Senator Wade’s Speech, Dec. 17: O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. 88.
1885. At this critical moment, Chief-Justice Moses was stricken down with a fit, from which he never recovered, and the Radicals made use of that opportunity to compass their ends.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ xiii. 73 (Richmond, Va.).
1908. Gen. Worthington, the only surviving pall-bearer at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, was stricken with apoplexy on the floor of the House.—N.Y. Evening Post, Dec. 10.
*** A lawyer in the U.S., in moving to expunge a part of the record, will almost always ask that it be stricken out, not struck out.
