An archaic past participle or adjective meaning shocked, stunned, or astonished in the extreme.
The past tense or past participle of 'astone' or 'astond,' preserving the '-ed' ending. Used from Middle English through the 1600s before being replaced by 'astonished.'
In Shakespeare's time, you could say someone was 'astoned' when they were truly flabbergasted—it's the ancestor of 'astonished' but sounds much more emphatic and dramatic.
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