astonied

Meaning

astony

To astound; to paralyse, to stun.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/əˈstɑnid/
Etymology

Apparently from astony, astonie, from Old French estonner, from Vulgar Latin *extonare. Compare English astonish, of which this was claimed in olden sources to be the more "correct" (or at least Biblical) version of the word.

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