awestrike

Verb

awestrike (third-person singular simple present awestrikes, present participle awestriking, simple past awestruck, past participle awestruck or awestricken)

1. (archaic, transitive) To strike (someone) with awe; to make (someone) awestruck.
   • Behold the God himself, whose dreadful brow
     Awe-strikes the soul to speechless homage!1822, Henry Hart Milman, The Martyr of Antioch, London: John Murray, page 140
   • The idea of these “ladies” at first annoyed him; but the humble habitation which they had chosen—humble to poverty—impressed him with the belief that, however the “ladies” might awe-strike the Welsh peasantry, he should find in them nothing that would impress him with the idea of station.1835, Mary Shelley, chapter 7, in Lodore, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, pages 98–99