单词 | planet-struck |
释义 | planet-struckadj. Now archaic. Stricken or afflicted, as by paralysis or other sudden physical disorder, as a result of the supposed malign influence of a planet. Hence: seized by sudden fear, amazement, etc.; panic-stricken; bewildered. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > suffering misfortune > stricken by misfortune star-crossed1597 star-cross1608 planet-struck1609 planet-stricken1615 sparrow-blasteda1652 hard-hit1826 1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. C1 It affrights him, yeelds him plannet strooke. 1658 T. Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 102 They being affrighted (as it were Planet-struck) and confounded with shame. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 413 The blasted Starrs lookt wan, And Planets, Planet-strook, real Eclips Then sufferd. View more context for this quotation 1704 Dict. Rusticum Planet-struck, or Shrow-Running; in Horses, is a deprivation of Feeling or Motion. 1708 Brit. Apollo 14–19 May Reading the last Weekly Bill of Mortality, I saw one among the Casualities Planet-struck. 1799 R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora II. 12 The Count became planet-struck as he listened to the grossness of this retort. 1854 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 17 126 Out of 100 deaths thus classified..1·8 to atrophy, the term which apparently had superseded the ‘planet-struck’ of the old bills. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xxii. 386 I shall be overlooked—planet-struck. 1892 Harper's Mag. Jan. 301/1 They believed in the malignant influence of the planets. One evening at a dancing-house half a dozen boys and girls were taken suddenly ill. Probably they had swallowed some poisonous stuff. They were supposed to be planet-struck. 1925 A. Huxley Sel. Poems 48 Let me..Dream planet-struck. 1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic xxi. 633 To be thus ‘planet-struck’ or ‘blasted’ was to be suddenly and inexplicably affected by a paralysing disease, apoplexy, or other kind of sudden death. 1992 Evening Standard (Nexis) 30 July 61 She was amazed, astounded, astonished, dumbstruck and planet-struck at the naivety of the question. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1609 |
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