astony

• (obsolete) astonie

From Middle English astonien, astunien, equivalent to a- +‎ stun. See also astone, astonish.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈstɒni/

astony (third-person singular simple present astonies, present participle astonying, simple past and past participle astonied)

1. (archaic, transitive) To stun, paralyse, astound.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xiiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:

     thenne Brastias sawe his felawe ferd so with al / he smote the duke with a spere that hors & man fell doune / that sawe kyng Claryaunce and retorned vnto Brastias / and eyther smote other soo that hors & man wente to the erthe / and so they lay long astonyed / & their hors knees brast to the hard bone

   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew VI:

     And it cam to passe, that when Jesus had ended these saynges, the peple were astonnied at his doctryne.

   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     , Folio Society, 2006, p.10:

     Verily the violence of a griefe, being extreme, must needs astonie the mind, and hinder the liberty of her actions.

   • 1611, King James Version, Job 17:*:

     Upright men shall be astonied at this […]

   • 1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Seraphim, and Other Poems, "Bereavement":

     When some Beloveds, 'neath whose eye

     The sweet lids lay lights of my childhood, one by one

     Did leave me dark before the natural sun,

     And I astonied fell and could not pray […]

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