pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs. exc. Sc. and north. [pa. pple. of STRIKE v.]
A. pa. pple. in special sense = STRICKEN A. STRUCK A.
1583–92. Greene, Mamillia, II. O 1 b. Calling him which was well strooken in yeeres, & yet enamoured,… not an old louer, but a filthie foole.
1586. T. Bright, Treat. Mel., xix. 118. The aged, farre stroken in yeares, faile in the execution of externall actions.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. II. 154. Now Metellan weil strukne in ȝeiris, [etc.].
1650. Lamont, Diary (Maitl. Club), 23. Old Inchdearnie … depairted out of this life, being a man weill struken in yeares.
1768. Foote, Devil upon two Sticks, II. Wks. 1778, IV. 40. Devil. That was composing, indeed. Last. Ay, warn’t it, master, for a man that is strucken in years.
B. ppl. a. = STRICKEN ppl. a. in various uses.
Strucken blindness (nonce-use), the condition of being struck blind.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. I. 123. Lat him that strykes be called giltie, & the strukne absoluet. Ibid., I. II. 140. Afor him, in Albion was na vsse of strukne or cuinȝet money.
1612. J. Davies (Heref.), Muse’s Sacrif. (Grosart), 81/2. Yet (like the strucken Fish) we are in hold.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, Paraphr. Interpr., P 7 b. I tune my strings…: some golden vein The strucken chords right sweetly shall resound.
1649. Milton, Eikon., Pref. B 2 b. That they … may have none to blame but thir owne folly, if they live and dye in such a strook’n blindness.
1661. Feltham, Resolves, Upon Eccles. ii. 11 (ed. 8), 382. A strucken Deer.
1901. G. Douglas, House w. Green Shutters, 297. John’s asleep this strucken hour and mair.
