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thunderstruck, ppl. a.|ˈθʌndəstrʌk|
Also 7 -stroken, -strucken.
(Usually in participial const., as predicate; less commonly in attrib. const., before the n. For the purely ppl. use with auxiliary, see thunderstrike.) [Orig. a later equivalent of thunderstricken.]
1. lit. Struck by lightning: cf. thunder n. 1 b. Now rare or Obs.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 19 Falling downe as thunder-struck. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 648 Those Thunder⁓strucken ones [compasses] did never..recover their right positions. 1720T. Boston Fourf. St. ii. ii. (1784) 104 When a person is thunder-struck, oft-times there is not a wound to be seen in the skin. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 86 Esteeming thunder-struck individuals under the displeasure of heaven.
2. fig.
a. Struck with sudden amazement, terror, or the like; greatly amazed, astonished, terrified, or confounded.
1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. i, The Thunder-stroken Swaine lean'd to a tree, As void of sense as weeping Niobe. 1687Boyle Martyrd. Theodora v, Thunder-struck with this unexpected answer. 1711Addison Spect. No. 60 ⁋4 The Lover was thunder-struck with his Misfortune. 1775Sheridan Duenna i. iii, I'm astonished! I'm thunder struck! here's treachery and conspiracy with a vengeance! 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 402 Luxemburg was thunder⁓struck. He expostulated boldly and earnestly.
b. in reference to ecclesiastical censure, etc.: cf. thunder n. 3 a, thunderbolt 2. rare.
1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. v. (1654) 202 How many famous Churches have beene..thunder-struck with direfull censures of Excommunication. 1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 132 Gregory the seventh, when he had excommunicated the Emperour Henry the fourth, said, he was fulmine afflatus thunder-struck by him. |