thunderstricken, a.
(ˈθʌndəˌstrɪk(ə)n)
[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 Let. to Johnson 10 June, Mr. Thrale seems thunderstricken, he don't mind anything. 1890 L. D'Oyle Notches 135 When Mrs. Low hastily lighted the lamp..and saw nothing, she was thunderstricken. |