strickenadj.
/ˈstrɪk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈstrɪkən/ I. As past participle in special sense.
1. (For other uses see strike v.) stricken in years (earlier †stricken on, in age, in elde): advanced in years. archaic. (See also struck n., strucken adj.)The participle in these phrases belongs to strike v. in the intransitive sense ‘to go’. Cf. the equivalent stepped (stape, stopen) in years (step v. 4).
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > old (of beings, etc.)
oldeOE
winteredeOE
oldlyOE
over-oldOE
eldernc1175
at-oldc1200
stricken on, in age, in eldec1380
oldlya1382
(well, far, etc.) stepped in age, in or into yearsc1386
ancientc1400
aged1420
well-agedc1450
ripec1480
passing oldc1485
(well) shot in years1530
old aged1535
agey1547
Ogygian1567
strucken1576
oldish1580
stricken in yearsa1586
declined1591
far1591
struck1597
Nestorian1605
overripe1605
elderly1611
eld1619
antiquated1631
enaged1631
thorough-old1639
emerita1643
grandevous1647
magnaevous1727
badgerly1753
(as) old as the hills1819
olden days1823
crusted1833
long in the tooth1841
oldened1854
mature1867
over the hill1950
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3481 Sirs, ȝe knoweþ wel þat y am sumdel stryken on age.
c1400 Sc. Trojan War (Horstm.) 2621 I ame now so strikine in elde, That I þe kynryk may nocht welde.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke i. f. lxxjv Booth were wele stricken in age.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xviii. B And Abraham and Sara were both olde, & well stryken in age.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 37v He learned to plaie on the harpe after yt he was well striken in age.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. iii. sig. C3v He being already well striken in yeares, maried a young princes, named Gynecia.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 133 A man well stricken in years.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 98. ⁋2 Though you are stricken in years, and have had great experience in the world.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose xv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 328 A matron somewhat stricken in years.
1839 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 84 At length there arrived..a great sage, stricken in years, who was called the sage Doobán.
II. In adjectival use (chiefly attributive).
2. Of a deer (occasionally of other animals): Wounded in the chase. †Also of a person: Hurt by a pointed instrument.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > wounded by sharp weapon
stricken1513
daggered1604
stabbed1613
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. ii. 40 Our all the cetie enragit scho..Wandris, as ane strikin hynd.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iv. iii. sig. Tjv I beinge a stryken fysher, waxe wyse .i. whan a fisher man hath hurte his hande with a hoke, [etc.].
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B6v A virgin widow, whose deepe wounded mind With loue, long time did languish as the striken hind.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. M8v That shall I shew (sayd he) as sure, as hound The stricken Deare doth chaleng by the bleeding wound.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 259 What, frighted with false fires? Then let the stricken [1604 strooken, 1623 strucken] deere goe weepe, The Hart vngalled play.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 108 I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since.
1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 202 A stricken whale has been known to stay an hour below the surface.
3.
a. Struck with a blow.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [adjective] > subjected to a stroke or blow
smittena1325
stricken1538
attainted1558
knocked?1562
strucken1596
attained1598
struck1627
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > [adjective] > played with hand
stricken1538
strucken1596
struck1627
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Pulsatus, striken as a harpe or other instrument is, whyche hath strynges.
1803 Visct. Strangford tr. L. V. de Camoens Poems 101 The stricken flint its fires betray'd!
1815 W. Scott Field of Waterloo 37 O when thou..mark'st the Matron's bursting tears Stream when the stricken drum she hears.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 117 Into fiery splinters leapt the lance, And out of stricken helmets sprang the fire.
1893 S. J. Gee Auscult. & Percuss. (ed. 4) iii. 60 A secondary object [in percussion] is to discover the degree of resistance or the density of the stricken spot.
b. Of a sound, musical note: Produced by striking a blow. stricken hour (archaic): a full hour as indicated by the striking of the clock.
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the world > time > period > hour > [noun]
tidea900
hourc1250
timea1325
hourglass1588
planetary hour1593
clock hour1600
ghurry1638
stricken hour1820
lunar hour1862
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [adjective] > strummed or struck
struck1627
stricken1873
strummed1881
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix*. 292 And, without interruption or impatience, to listen for a stricken hour to his narration.
1855 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 27 Sept. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. iii. 358 General Campbell made us a call..and sat talking a stricken hour or thereabout.
1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls xxxiv. 442 A sudden stop, in speech as in music, is sometimes more significant than any stricken note.
4.
a. Of a person, community: Afflicted with disease or sickness; overwhelmed with trouble or sorrow, and the like. Of the face: Marked with or exhibiting great trouble.Frequent in combination, as fever- (1818), panic- (1814), pestilence- (1819), poverty- (1844), sorrow- (1819) stricken: see those words.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased
untrumc825
sickc888
unwholec888
slackc897
unstronga900
sicklea1000
sam-halea1023
worseOE
attaint1303
languishinga1325
heallessc1374
sicklyc1374
sicklewa1387
bada1393
mishalea1400
languoring?c1425
distempered1440
unwell?c1450
detent?a1475
poora1475
languorousc1475
maladif1481
illa1500
maladiousc1500
wanthriven1508
attainted1509
unsound1513
acrazed1521
cracked1527
unsoundya1529
visited1537
infirmed1552
crazed1555
healthless1568
ill-liking1572
afflicted1574
crazy1576
unhealthful1580
sickish1581
valetudinary1581
not well1587
fainty1590
ill-disposed1596
unhealthsome1598
tainted1600
ill-affected1604
peaking1611
unhealthy1611
infirmited1616
disaffected1626
physical1633
illish1637
pimping1640
invalid1642
misaffected1645
valetudinarious1648
unhale1653
badly1654
unwholesome1655
valetudinous1655
morbulent1656
off the hooksa1658
mawkish1668
morbid1668
unthriven1680
unsane1690
ailing1716
not wellish1737
underlya1742
poorly1750
indifferent1753
comical1755
maladized1790
sober1808
sickened1815
broken-down1816
peaky1821
poorlyish1827
souffrante1827
run-down1831
sicklied1835
addle1844
shaky1844
mean1845
dauncy1846
stricken1846
peakyish1853
po'ly1860
pindling1861
rough1882
rocky1883
suffering1885
wabbit1895
icky-boo1920
like death warmed up1924
icky1938
ropy1945
crappy1956
hanging1971
sick as a parrot1982
shite1987
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > severely
broken-minded1362
broken-spirited1362
all amort1565
heartsick1590
soul-sick1609
stricken1846
shattered1930
black depressed1938
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. liii. 4 Yet we did esteeme him striken, smitten of God, and afflicted. View more context for this quotation]
1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia I. i. vii. 243 He rather heightened than removed the picture which haunted Mainwaring—Susan, stricken, dying, broken-hearted!
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxx. 515 The generous assistant of the stricken or oppressed.
1875 H. James Roderick Hudson xxvi Roderick's stricken state had driven him..higher and further than he knew.
1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 222 The woman shuddered, and shrank away. Presently she lifted up a drawn, stricken face.
1904 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2) II. xlvii. 269 It should have reached him the summer of the great plague, when there was but little intercourse between the ships and the stricken city [Aleppo].
b. Of the mind, heart, soul: Afflicted with frenzy, madness, grief, or the like.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > of the mind
alienate?a1425
sicklya1771
stricken1796
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc i. 58 To place her with some pious sisterhood, Who..may likeliest remedy The stricken mind, or frenzied or possess'd.
1859 R. C. Trench Hulsean Lect. 1845–6 (ed. 4) 45 The good Samaritan that bound up the wounds of every stricken heart.
1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin xiii. iii Those..know little or nothing..of the stricken soul that looks out on man..through the light of an intolerable pain.
c. jocularly. ‘Smitten’ with love. Cf. love-stricken adj. at love n.1 Compounds 3.
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > smitten with love
love-strucka1652
love-stricken1750
love-smitten1833
stricken1841
twitterpated1942
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. viii. 124 A stricken market-gardener.
5. Of a measure: Having its contents levelled with the brim of the measuring vessel, as distinguished from heaped. Cf. striked adj.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > [adjective] > made flat or level > of a measure
stricken1495
striked1581
struck1866
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 4 §2 Be it also enacted that ther be but only viij busshelles rased and streken to the quarter of Corne.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 108 Wee have allwayes of a stricken bushell of corne an upheaped bushell of meale.
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 27 Nov. (1778) I have employed an itinerant Chaff-cutter, at 1s. the quarter of sixteen striken-bushels.
1776 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 21 May (1778) Nine cart-horses eat thirty quarters of chaff..about three double quarters (of sixteen bushels equal to stricken measure) a-team a-week.
6. Of a sail: Lowered.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adjective] > lowered
strickena1586
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) ii. f. 65 The cunningest mariners were so conquered by the storme, as they thought it best with striken [1590 (ed. 1) striking] sailes to yeeld to be gouerned by it.
7. stricken field (rarely battle): a joined engagement between armed forces or combatants; a pitched battle.A Scottish use, restored to literary currency by Scott. Cf. the phrases to strike a battle, strike v.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [adjective] > types of armed encounter
openeOE
set battle1487
unbloody1544
pight1562
pitched1569
round1601
steadfast1623
strucka1625
running1651
stationary1737
stricken field1820
close quarters1871
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > battle or a battle > pitched battle
pitched battle?1530
main battle1569
just battle1578
field fight1598
pitch-field1613
pitch battle1673
ranged battle1680
stricken field (rarely battle)1820
1820 W. Scott Abbot II. iii. 87 I never had the good fortune to see a stricken field.
1828 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 252 He was vanquished on fields of stricken battle.
1829 W. Scott Waverley (new ed.) II. xv. 146 (note) The Highlandmen are pretty men For handling sword and shield, But yet they are but simple men To stand a stricken field.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iii. 134 As if there had been an actual stricken field, with all the able-bodied men on both sides engaged in it.
Derivatives
ˈstrickenly adv.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > broken-heartedness > [adverb]
broken-heartedly1678
brokenly1816
strickenly1880
1880 Mrs. C. Reade Brown Hand & White I. viii. 192 She marvels, and each succeeding year more strickenly, at the exceeding beauty of the young world.
1881 D. C. Murray Joseph's Coat II. xxv. 268 ‘This is a queer start’, said the bewildered reader, staring strickenly at Joe.
ˈstrickenness n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun]
unhealc700
untrumnessc897
adleeOE
sicknessc967
cothec1000
unhealthc1000
woe?a1200
ail?c1225
lying?c1225
maladyc1275
unsoundc1275
feebless1297
languora1375
languishc1384
disease1393
aegritudea1400
lamea1400
maleasea1400
soughta1400
wilc1400
malefaction?a1425
firmityc1426
unwholesomenessc1449
ill1450
languenta1500
distemperancea1535
the valley of the shadow of death1535
affect?1537
affection?1541
distemperature1541
inability1547
sickliness1565
languishment1576
cause1578
unhealthfulness1589
crazedness1593
languorment1593
evilness1599
strickenness1599
craziness1602
distemper1604
unsoundness1605
invaletude1623
unhealthiness1634
achaque1647
unwellness1653
disailment1657
insalubrity1668
faintiness1683
queerness1687
invalidity1690
illness1692
ill health1698
ailment1708
illing1719
invalescence1724
peakingness1727
sickishness1727
valetudinariness1742
ailingness1776
brash1786
invalidism1794
poorliness1814
diseasement1826
invalidship1830
valetudinarianism1839
ailing1862
invalidhood1863
megrims1870
pourriture1890
immersement1903
bug1918
condition1920
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 26/1 A precious water for the strickennes, & fallinge Sicknes... For strickennes. Take Assesbloode [etc.]..and this with God his ayde will recovere agayne his speeche.
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