ppl. a. [f. SUN sb. + STRICKEN, after next.] Affected injuriously by the rays or heat of the sun; spec. affected with sunstroke. (Often const. as pa. pple.)
1844. Sir W. Napier, Conq. Scinde, II. vii. (1845), 436. The General … was suddenly sun-stricken, and … thirty-three European soldiers fell … beneath the same malignant ray.
1864. Tennyson, En. Ard., 566. Enoch’s comrade … fell Sun-stricken.
1888. Doughty, Trav. Arabia Deserta, II. 180. The heart slenderly nourished, under that sun-stricken climate.
1907. J. H. Patterson, Man-Eaters of Tsavo, i. 16. This … wilderness of whitish and leafless dwarf trees, presented a ghastly and sun-stricken appearance.
