astonished, ppl. a.
(əˈstɒnɪʃt)
Also 6 -ist, 7 -isht.
[f. astonish + -ed.]
† 1. Bereft of sensation; stunned, benumbed. Obs.
| 1576 Baker Gesner's Jewell Health 50 a, The water doth lyke recover astonished or benummed partes of the body. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 460 Who lay..apoplecticall or astonished. 1658 Rowland Mouffet's Theat. Ins. 1106 This cures the nerves relaxed, contracted, astonished. |
† 2. Stunned or paralysed mentally, bereft of one's wits; stupefied, bewildered. Obs.
| 1513 Douglas æneis viii. iii. 59 Pallas, astonyst of sa hie a name. 1580 Sidney Arcadia (1622) 5 Musidorus..had his wits astonished with sorrow. 1670 Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 502 Blind, astonished, and struck with superstition as with a planet; in one word, Monks. |
3. Filled with consternation; dismayed. arch.
| 1653 Crashaw Sacr. Poems 147 Th' astonish'd nymphs their flood's strange fate deplore. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. (R.) With rage inflam'd astonish'd with surprize. 1790 Burns Tam O'Shanter, But Maggie stood right sair astonish'd. |
4. Amazed, full of surprised wonder.
| 1718 Pope Iliad vii. 105 This fierce defiance Greece astonish'd heard. 1781 Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 228 Beaten to death with sticks, before the eyes of the astonished emperor. 1810 Southey Kehama xxiii. ix, The towers of Yamenpur Rise on the astonish'd sight. |