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ˈdeath-struck, a. Also death-stricken, † -strucken. Smitten with death, i.e. with a mortal wound or disease.
1622J. Reynolds God's Revenge ii. vii. 83 They see her death-strooken with that Plannet, and therefore adiudge their skill but vaine. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. iii. ii. (heading), A strange Example of one Death-strucken as he walked the Streets. 1688Norris Love i. iii. 25 When all his Rational Facultys are as 'twere benumm'd and death-struck. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxxvii, Tho' death-struck, still his feeble frame he rears. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Death-strucken, smitten with death. 1887A. Jessopp in Dict. Nat. Biog. IX. 402/2 It is only when he [Cecil] is death-stricken..that we find the curtain raised. |