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▪ I. shocked, ppl. a.1|ʃɒkt| [f. shock v.2 + -ed1.] 1. Shaken violently.
1642Iacke Puffe 16 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 315 The women did..quake, As did the people, in old æsops time, At the shockt mount, whereforth a Mouse did clime. 1904Kipling Things & the Man 17 in Times 1 Aug. 7/6 The peace of shocked Foundations flew Before his ribald questionings. 2. Scandalized, horrified.
1840Queen Victoria Let. 21 Jan. in B. Connell Regina v. Palmerston (1962) i. 20 A letter..which she has kept near three years, she is shocked to say. 1861Paley æschylus (ed. 2) Agam. 1555 note, He..is with difficulty pacified by the more collected and shocked, if not now repentant Clytemnestra. 1883R. Broughton Belinda II. 191 ‘She is making him [the Prince] shake hands with her!’ says Sarah, in a shocked voice. 1884Harper's Mag. Oct. 692/1 Agnes put on a shocked face. 3. Subjected to mechanical shock, esp. by the passage of a shock wave.
1962E. M. Shoemaker in Z. Kopol Physics & Astron. Moon viii. 317 Part of the kinetic energy of the meteorite engulfed by shock is converted to internal energy in the meteorite, and part is transferred as kinetic and internal energy to the shocked rock ahead of the meteorite. 1973Nature 27 July 211/2 Hypervelocity impact cratering studies have shown that about ninety-nine volumes of crushed and shocked rock are formed and ejected for each volume of liquid melt (glass) that is formed and ejected. 1976Ibid. 11 Nov. 114/3 This ionisation front is preceded by a shock front, and after a time there is a shocked layer of neutral gas between these two fronts. Hence shockedly |ˈʃɒkɪdlɪ, ˈʃɒktlɪ|, adv.; ˈshockedness.
1895Mrs. W. K. Clifford Flash of Summer xxvi, ‘Perhaps you will come into the dining-room, sir’, Elizabeth said, with a little air of shockedness at Mr. Belcher's manner. 1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 531/2 Shockedly. A bad form. 1963D. Hughes in Sissons & French Age of Austerity 93 Then, rather shockedly, a knight's name figured in court. ▪ II. shocked, ppl. a.2|ʃɒkt| [f. shock v.3 + -ed1.] Of corn: Heaped in shocks.
1839Clough Early Poems iii. 7 And glimmering grain Standing or shocked through the thick hedge espied. 1884St. James's Gaz. 22 Aug. 14/2 Fields of shocked or stooked corn. |