ˈplanet-ˌstricken, a.
Also 7 -stro(o)ken, -strucken.
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| 1600 Dekker Olde Fortunatus Wks. 1873 I. 116 If your wits be not planet strucken, if your braines lie in their right place. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. §352 Some..who thought they might presume best of her fauour, haue been so suddenly daunted and Planet-stricken, that they could not lay downe their griefe thereof, but in their graues. a 1613 Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 76 An Amorist is a man blasted or planet-strooken. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 114 The Planet-stroken Albumazar, Shaues the Muses like a razor. 1643 Plain English 25 How could I..drop spirit and vigour into the hearts of my plannet-stricken Country-men? 1819 Wordsw. P. Bell iii. xxx, Like planet-stricken men of yore, He trembles, smitten to the core. |
Hence ˈplanet-strike v. trans. (rare—0), to strike as a malignant influence, to blast.
| 1611 Florio, Assideratione..a blasting or planetstreeking. 1659 Torriano, Assideráre, to Planet-strike, to blast as trees doe through great heat and drought. |