strucken

English

Verb

strucken

  1. (obsolete) past participle of strike
    • 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse‎:
      Wherat all the people wondred greatly, and laughed me to scorne: but I beeing strucken in a cold sweat, crept between their legs for shame and escaped away.
    • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
      He that is strooken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost‎:
      They destitute and bare Of all their virtue: Silent, and in face Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute: Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed, At length gave utterance to these words constrained.
    • 1884, various, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII‎:
      My faither had strucken at it, when the mad animal plunged its horns into the side o' the mare, and he fell to the ground.

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