planet-struck
Americanadjective
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affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
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stricken with terror; panic-stricken.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of planet-struck
First recorded in 1605–15
Example Sentences
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"What was it?" gasped Dorothy, who had stood throughout the duel like one planet-struck; "what was it you did?"
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
“So saying, he dismiss’d them; they with speed Their course through thickest constellation held, Spreading their bane; the blasted stars look’d wan, And planets, planet-struck, real eclipse, Then suffer’d.”
From The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers
Why, this is downright tyranny! it has quite dampt my spirits; and my betrothed, yonder, seems planet-struck too, I think.
From The Man of the World (1792) by Charles Macklin
Forgetful let me lie where summer's drouth Sifts fine the sand and then with gaping mouth Dream planet-struck by the grape's round wine-red star.
From The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems by Aldous Huxley
"The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
From Wordsworth by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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