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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Some can speak, And call the heavens to record, when their fancy, Mere planet-struck, has fix'd their influence On various objects: this deludes poor wenches, And makes them melt like ceruse!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
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
Nay, in making gooselings in embers: and starting as if they were planet-struck at the weak report of a pot-gun.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
So saying he dismissed them; they with speed Their course through thickest constellations held, Spreading their bane; the blasted stars looked wan, And planets, planet-struck, real eclipse Then suffered.
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
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