astonied
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of astonied
1300–50; Middle English, past participle of astonyen to astonish; -ed 2
Example Sentences
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And when they heard these words they fell down to the earth and were astonied; and therewith was a great clereness.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
I shall ne’er be astonied if she wed with Arthur Tremayne.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah
He surprised with like affection, was more astonied by seeing the alteration of his Ladie.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William
I was loosening The bar of the closed gate, when the sharp sound Of mine own sorrow smote against my heart, And I fell back astonied on my maids And fainted.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
He vanished before the spell Of the Sacred Name I named, And I lay in my darkened cell Smitten, astonied, shamed.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various
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