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verb

Stricken past part., adj. (past part. of Strike)

Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer. Note: (See Strike, n.)

Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21. "Abraham was old and well stricken in age."

Whole; entire; said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock. (Scot.) "He persevered for a stricken hour in such a torrent of unnecessary tattle." "Speeches are spoken by the stricken hour, day after day, week, perhaps, after week."

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"Stricken" Quotes from Famous Books

... special committee appointed by the Legislature to revise the election laws was asked that the word "male" be stricken out. No attention was paid ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various

... thief and make him ill. The priest would then sit down with some select members of the family around the bowl representative of the god, and pray for speedy vengeance on the guilty; then they waited the issue. These imprecations were dreaded. Conscience-stricken thieves, when taken ill, were carried off by their friends on a litter and laid down at the door of the priest, with taro, cocoa-nuts, or yams, in lieu of those confessed to have been stolen; and they would add fine mats and other presents, that the priest might pray again over ...

— Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before • George Turner

... studying for these examinations, sorrow for the first time knocked at his door. His first-born fell suddenly ill, and in a few days died. On this occasion all his ardent spirituality asserted itself, though in stricken accents, in the letter which he wrote to his brother ...

— Fabre, Poet of Science • Dr. G.V. (C.V.) Legros

... Yes, sometimes to the sorrow-stricken Shall his own sorrow seem impertinent, A thing that takes no more root in the world Than doth the ...

— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... Why, let the stricken deer go weep; The hart ungalled play, For some must watch, while some must sleep: So ...

— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie

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