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adj. - Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.

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  • Bartolo; he is literally "astonied," and Figaro makes him the victim of several laughable pranks before he recovers his wits.
  • The stony or "astonied" appearance of these figures is a resonant emblematic image of the fact that they are not life but art.
  • When Sir Palomides heard him say so he was astonied.
  • Plutarche is astonied, in the life of Marcus Antonius.
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