English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) astonie

Verb

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

1. (archaic) 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, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: 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.