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† comˈpunct, ppl. a. Obs.
Also 6 compunt.
[ad. L. compunct-us, pa. pple. of compung-ĕre to prick severely, to sting, f. com- intensive + pungĕre to prick.]
‘Pricked’ in heart or conscience by consciousness of wrong-doing; affected with compunction. (Usually construed as a pple.)
1382Wyclif Acts ii. 37 These thingis herd, thei weren compunct in herte. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxii. 146 He..was gretely compuncte and went fra þam and did þam na disese. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 59 With herte contryte, compuncte, and sorowfull. 1538Prymer K viij b, David compunt and stryken with herty repentaunce. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Acts ii. 37 Hearing these things they were compuncte in harte. 1659W. Brough Sacr. Princ. 473 To be compunct and not confess is to bleed inwardly.
¶ In the Wyclifite version, to be compunct renders the Lat. passive compungi, Gr. κατανύσσεσθαι, in certain passages, where the Heb. has forms of dāmam to be dumb or silent. So in Hampole's Comm. on Psalms.
1388Wyclif Ps. iv. 5 For the thingis whiche ȝe seien in ȝoure hertis, and in ȝoure beddis, be ȝe compunct [dōmmû, κατανύγητε, compungimini; 1382 haue ȝee compunccioun; Hampole, Þat ȝe say in ȝoure hertis and in ȝoure dennes ere stungen; Coverdale, remembre youre selues; Douay be sorie for; Geneva and 1611be still]. ― Ps. xxix (xxx). 13: xxxiv (xxxv). 16. c 1430 tr. T. à Kempis' Imit. i. xx, As it is writen, ‘Be ye compuncte in your pryue couches’. |