forglopned

Middle English

Etymology

From for- +‎ gloppen

Adjective

forglopned

1. Overwhelmed with astonishment and fear.
   • c. 1180, Orm, edited by Robert Meadows White, The Ormulum, page 20, lines 669–670:

     To beldenn ⁊ to frofrenn þe, Ȝiff he þe seþ forrgloppnedd.

     To bolden and to comfort thee, if he sees thee distressed.

   • c. 1350, anonymous author, edited by Richard Morris, Cursor Mundi, Göttingen edition, page 1124, lines 19633–19634:

     Saul him quok, sua was he rad, For-glopind in his mod all madd.

     Saul quaked, so afraid was he, overwhelmed in his mind, completely mad.