thunderstricken

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)past participle of thunderstrike

adj

1. Thunderstruck.

   “1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 104, […] I sawe straight, Maiesty (sitting in the throne of Beautie) draw foorth such a sworde of iust disdaine, that I remayned as a man thunder-striken; not daring, no not able, to beholde that power.”

   “The Doctor was so thunderstricken, that he pocketed the money without uttering a word.”

   “If some tremendous apparition from the world of shadows had suddenly presented itself before him, Ralph Nickleby could not have been more thunder-stricken than he was by this surprise.”

   “At the first shock, no token, in heaven or on earth, had excited attention; but at the sudden movement, and at the aspect of destruction, an overwhelming terror seized on the general mind, insomuch, that the instinct of self-preservation was suspended, and men remained thunderstricken and immoveable.”

   “The aghast and thunderstricken philosophers remained gazing at each other for a moment. "”