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astonie

astonie is the obsolete spelling of astony.

Meaning of astony

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To astound; to paralyse, to stun.
    • 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...[1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I

Questions about astonie

What is astonie the obsolete spelling of?
Astonie is the obsolete spelling of astony.

Words near astonie in the dictionary

  1. Aston Tirrold
  2. Aston-on-Trent
  3. astone
  4. astoned
  5. astones
  6. astonie
  7. astonied
  8. astoniedness
  9. astonies
  10. astoning
  11. astonish

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