ppl. a. [Due to mixture of aswoon (which, in the Chaucer instance, the other MSS. read) and swooned, in ME. iswouned.] A-swoon, swooned.
[Cf. c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 1342. Twenti tyme Iswounyd hath sche thanne (v.r. y-swowned, i-swowned, i-swonyd, swouned, swowned, -yd, yswounded).] Ibid. (c. 1386), Clerkes T., 1023 (Harl. MS.). Whan sche this herd, aswoned doun sche fallith [Six-text, aswowne, aswounne, a swowne, in swowe].
1878. B. Taylor, Deukalion, II. v. 85. The Past, that ’mid her ruins lay a-swooned.
