astony

present singular third person astonies · participle present astonying · participle past astonied · past astonied · alternative astonie

1. obsoletetransitiveTo astound; to paralyse, to stun.

   Upright men shall be astonied at this […]

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 17

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   thenne Brastias sawe his felawe ferd so with al / he smote the duke with a spere that hors & man fell doune / that sawe kyng Claryaunce and retorned vnto Brastias / and eyther smote other soo that hors & man wente to the erthe / and so they lay long astonyed / & their hors knees brast to the hard bone

   [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I

   And it cam to passe, that when Jesus had ended these saynges, the peple were astonnied at his doctryne.

   1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew

   Verily the violence of a griefe, being extreme, must needs astonie the mind, and hinder the liberty of her actions.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

   On th' other ſide, Adam, ſoon as he heard / The fatal Treſpaſs don by Eve, amaz'd, / Aſtonied ſtood and Blank, vvhile horror chill / Ran through his veins, and all his joynts relax'd; […]

   1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [Hh3], verso, lines 888–893

   When some Beloveds, 'neath whose eye / The sweet lids lay lights of my childhood, one by one / Did leave me dark before the natural sun, / And I astonied fell and could not pray […]

   1838, Elizabeth B[arrett] Barrett [i.e., Elizabeth Barrett Browning], “Bereavement”, in The Seraphim, and Other Poems, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC