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† astoned, astunned, ppl. a. Obs.|əˈstʌnd|
Forms: 3–7 astoned, 4 astuned, astouned, 5 astonyd, astownyd, 5–6 astooned, astoyned, 4–6 astonned, 6–7 astond, 7 astund, 7–8 astunned.
[Pa. pple. of prec. vb., pronounced in ME. (aˈstunəd, aˈstund); but sometimes, like other ME. words in -und, lengthened to |aˈstuːnd|, and spelt astound, astownd; see astound ppl. a. Astoyned in 15–16th c. is an unexplained variant, perhaps mixing astoned and astonyed.]
1. Stunned, benumbed, stupefied, insensible.
c1300St. Margar. 290 Þe folc..ful adoun for drede & leye þer as hi were astoned & as hi were dede. c1330Arth. & Merl. 6297 Hors and man astuned lay. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 76 So astoned that the eyen in hys heed were al troubled of the payne. 1578Lyte Dodoens 383 The same..dissolueth the blood that is astonde or fixed. 1624Quarles Job Mil. (1717) 187 Astun'd with sorrows. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 253 Prostrate he lies Astunn'd and impotent.
2. Stupid.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. iii. 122 Yif he be slowe and astoned..he lyueth as an asse.
3. Stricken with consternation or amazement, so as to lose presence of mind; amazed, overwhelmed, confounded; astonished.
1297R. Glouc. 396 Her hors were al astoned, & nolde after wylle Sywe noþer spore ne brydel. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 281 No wonder is thogh that she were astoned [astoned—5 v.r. astonyd, -yed]..Sche neuere was to swiche gestis woned. c1400Destr. Troy xxiii. 9488 All astonyt þai stode starond aboute. c1500Virgilius in Thoms Prose Rom. (1858) II. 26 Virgilius was a stoned and merueyled greatly thereof. 1543Grafton Cont. Harding 494 At whiche questyon all the lordes sat sore astonned, musynge muche. c1550Cheke Matt. xiii. 54 In so much yt yei weer astooned. 1576Gascoigne Compl. Philom. (Arb.) 89, I stood astoynde. a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) III. xxxii. 352 He will be astond, and will say, In truth great is the God of Christians. |