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strucken, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs. exc. Sc. and north.|ˈstrʌk(ə)n|
[pa. pple. of strike v.]
A. pa. pple. in special sense = stricken A, struck A.
1583–92Greene Mamillia ii. O 1 b, Calling him which was well strooken in yeeres, & yet enamoured,..not an old louer, but a filthie foole. 1586T. Bright Treat. Mel. xix. 118 The aged, farre stroken in yeares, faile in the execution of externall actions. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. ii. 154 Now Metellan weil strukne in ȝeiris, [etc.]. 1650Lamont Diary (Maitl. Club) 23 Old Inchdearnie..depairted out of this life, being a man weill struken in yeares. 1768Foote Devil upon two Sticks ii. Wks. 1778 IV. 40 Devil. That was composing, indeed. Last. Ay, warn't it, master, for a man that is strucken in years.
B. ppl. a. = stricken ppl. a. in various uses.
strucken blindness (nonce-use), the condition of being struck blind.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. i. 123 Lat him that strykes be called giltie, & the strukne absoluet. Ibid. I. ii. 140 Afor him, in Albion was na vsse of strukne or cuinȝet money. 1612J. Davies (Heref.) Muse's Sacrif. (Grosart) 81/2 Yet (like the strucken Fish) we are in hold. 1642H. More Song of Soul, Paraphr. Interpr. P 7 b, I tune my strings..: some golden vein The strucken chords right sweetly shall resound. 1649Milton Eikon. Pref. B 2 b, That they..may have none to blame but thir owne folly, if they live and dye in such a strook'n blindness. 1661Feltham Resolves, Upon Eccles. ii. 11 (ed. 8) 382 A strucken Deer. 1901G. Douglas House with Gr. Shutters 297 John's asleep this strucken hour and mair. |