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▪ I. stupend, a. Obs. in serious use.|stjʊˈpɛnd|
[ad. L. stupend-us: see stupendous. Cf. horrend, tremend.]
Stupendous.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. vii. 35 In time of sleepe this faculty is free, & many times conceaues strange, stupend, absurd shapes. Ibid. ii. ii. ii. 314 The Romanes had their publike Bathes, very sumptuous and stupend. 1676Doctrine of Devils 25 That stupend miracle of Christ's Incarnation. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. ii. xix. 122 The stupend Variety of Human Faces. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 127 A lobster..of experience so stupend, His claws were blunted at the end, Turning life's iron pages o'er.
Hence † stuˈpendly adv.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iv. i. i. 717 The Brittaines are so stupendly superstitious in their ceremonies, that [etc.].
▪ II. stupend, v. rare.|stjʊˈpɛnd|
[Back-formation from stupendous a.]
trans. To amaze, dumbfound. (G. B. Shaw's word.)
1904G. B. Shaw Let. 6 Dec. (1972) II. 470 You will be stupended at all meanness in this obvious & cheap retort. 1927― Let. 2 Feb. in To a Young Actress (1960) 113 The discovery that you actually wanted me to shew that daub to Charlotte has perfectly stupended me. |