astony
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- (obsolete) astonie
Etymology edit
From Middle English astonien, astunien, equivalent to a- + stun. See also astone, astonish.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
astony (third-person singular simple present astonies, present participle astonying, simple past and past participle astonied)
- (archaic, transitive) To stun, paralyse, astound.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- 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
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- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →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[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, p.10:
- Verily the violence of a griefe, being extreme, must needs astonie the mind, and hinder the liberty of her actions.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 17::
- Upright men shall be astonied at this […]
- 1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Bereavement”, in The Seraphim, and Other Poems:
- 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 […]