Astony

/əˈstɒni/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To astound; to paralyse, to stun..

Example Sentences

thenne Brastias sawe his felawe ferd so with al / he smote the duke with a spere that hors & man fell doune / that sawe kyng Claryaunce and retorned vnto Brastias / and eyther smote other soo that hors & man wente to the erthe / and so they lay long astonyed / & their hors knees brast to the hard bone

And it cam to passe, that when Jesus had ended these saynges, the peple were astonnied at his doctryne.

Verily the violence of a griefe, being extreme, must needs astonie the mind, and hinder the liberty of her actions.

On th' other ſide, Adam, ſoon as he heard / The fatal Treſpaſs don by Eve, amaz'd, / Aſtonied ſtood and Blank, vvhile horror chill / Ran through his veins, and all his joynts relax'd; […]

Upright men shall be astonied at this […]

When some Beloveds, 'neath whose eye / The sweet lids lay lights of my childhood, one by one / Did leave me dark before the natural sun, / And I astonied fell and could not pray […]

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• astonies
• astonying
• astonied
• astonie

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