ppl. a. [f. STUPEFY v. + -ED1.] In senses of the verb.
1639. J. Taylor (Water P.), Crabtree Lect., 12. Goe, thou art a stupified Asse.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 70. Thirdly, in the return of the Spirits into the stupefied Leg, we plainly perceive by the prickling, what a slow motion the Spirits have.
1673. Bunyan, Diff. Judgm. Water-Baptism, 44. I will not suppose you so much stupified.
1790. Burke, Refl. Rev. France, Wks. 1792, III. 100. Several English were the stupified and indignant spectators of that triumph.
1825. Macaulay, Milton, Ess. (1897), 27. To break the ties which bound a stupefied people to the seat of enchantment.
a. 1908. C. Bigg, Orig. Christianity, xxi. (1909), 285. Herodian, a contemporary, speaks of Severus with an almost stupefied admiration.
Hence Stupefiedness.
c. 1647. Boyle, Disc. Swearing, Wks. 1772, VI. 6. We know that insensibility of pain may … proceed from the deadness and stupifiedness of the part.
