aswooned, ppl. a.
(əˈswuːnd)
[Due to mixture of aswoon (which, in the Chaucer instance, the other MSS. read) and swooned, in ME. iswouned.]
A-swoon, swooned.
| [Cf. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 1342 Twenti tyme Iswounyd hath sche thanne (v.r. y-swowned, i-swowned, i-swonyd, swouned, swowned, -yd, yswounded).] c 1386 ― Clerk's T. 1023 (Harl. MS.) Whan sche this herd, aswoned doun sche fallith [Six-text, aswowne, aswounne, a swowne, in swowe]. 1878 B. Taylor Deukalion ii. v. 85 The Past, that 'mid her ruins lay a-swooned. |