astony

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Etymology

From Middle English astoneyen, astony, a back-formation from astoneyed, from a- +‎ Old French estoné (“stunned”), the past participle of estoner (“to stun”) + -ed (participial suffix). See also astone, astonish.

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Verb

astony (third-person singular simple present astonies, present participle astonying, simple past and past participle astonied)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To astound; to paralyse, to stun.
  • 1526, , The Newe Testamẽt  (Tyndale Bible), , →OCLC, Matthew:
    And it cam to passe, that when Jesus had ended these saynges, the peple were astonnied at his doctryne.
  • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes , London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:
    Verily the violence of a griefe, being extreme, must needs astonie the mind, and hinder the liberty of her actions.
  • 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: ">…] , and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC, signature , verso, lines 888–893:
    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;
  • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Job 17::
    Upright men shall be astonied at this
  • 1838, Elizabeth B Barrett , “Bereavement”, in The Seraphim, and Other Poems, London: Saunders and Otley, , →OCLC:
    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

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    Middle English

    Verb

    astony

    1. alternative form of astoneyen
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