Meanings
- obsoleteparticiplepastpast participle of strike
He that is strooken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]3 more examples
Wherat all the people wondred greatly, and laughed me to scorne: but I beeing strucken in a cold sweat, crept between their legs for shame and escaped away.
1566, William Adlington, The Golden AsseThey destitute and bare Of all their virtue: Silent, and in face Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute: Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed, At length gave utterance to these words constrained.
1667, John Milton, Paradise LostMy faither had strucken at it, when the mad animal plunged its horns into the side o' the mare, and he fell to the ground.
1884, various, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII
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