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ˈplanet-struck, a.
Also 7 -strook(e.
[f. planet n.1 1 b + pa. pple. of strike v. Cf. moonstruck, lunatic.]
Stricken by the supposed malign influence of an adverse planet; blasted; sometimes said in reference to paralytic or other sudden physical affections; hence, Stricken with sudden fear or amazement, panic-stricken; terrified, bewildered, confounded.
1614Markham Cheap Husb. i. xi. (1668) 49 Cold flegmatick humors..sometimes weakening but one member only, then it is called Planet-strook. 1658Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 102 They being affrighted (as it were Planet-struck) and confounded with shame. 1667Milton P.L. x. 414 The blasted Starrs lookt wan, And Planets, Planet-strook, real Eclips Then sufferd. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 28. 1/2 Reading the last Weekly Bill of Mortality, I saw one among the Casualities Planet-struck. 1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Planet-struck, or Shrew-Running (in Horses) is a deprivation of Feeling or Motion. 1799R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora II. 12 The Count became planet-struck as he listened to the grossness of this retort. 1865Kingsley Herew. xli, I shall be overlooked—planet-struck. 1925A. Huxley Sel. Poems 48 Let me..Dream planet-struck. |