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stark dead, a.
[prob. orig. stark a. (sense 4); afterwards taken as stark adv. 2.]
Quite dead. lit. and fig.
a1375Joseph Arim. 567 [He] Baar him doun of his hors and..strok him stark ded þat he sturede neuere. 1390Gower Conf. II. 105 Stark ded, his armes sprad, sche syh Hire lord flietende upon the wawe. 1470–85Malory Arthur xxi. iv. 847 Therwythall syr Mordred fyl starke deed to the erthe. a1595R. Southwell Hundred Medit. (1873) 221 The soul..waxeth cold, and proud, and stark dead..when it is deprived of this Thy holy love. 1615Crooke Body of Man 420 When I came, I found the man starke dead. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Damps, The Maid going down to call her Master, found them all in their digging Postures: but stark dead.
†b. of night. Obs.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. i, Tis now starke deade night. |