Middle English Dictionary Entry
stupor n.
Entry Info
| Forms | stupor n. Also stupore, stupour. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Insensibility, numbness, stupor; (b) amazement, stupefaction; a state of amazement.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)81b/a : Stupor is I-clepid a disese of þe soule..stupor is blindenes of resoun, and he is as it were slepe..it comeþ of perturbacioun of resoun þat takeþ nouȝt hede; ouþir..of superfluyte of humour þat..lettiþ þe weyes of þe spiritis, as..in dronken men; Outhir..of colde ayer þat pressiþ & wringiþ þe sinewis of felinge.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)81b/a : Also stupor is comelinge & stonynge of lymes & crokynge of þe vttir parties of þe body for coolde, so þat hit semeþ þat þe lymes schrinkeþ & slepiþ.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)68b/b : Þe reson is loste if þe wonde be in þe forþer partiez..And with þe forsaid accidentez þer is stupor, i. stounyng, & more vnwisedom or madnez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)140a/b : Of stupore & congelacioun of teþe, hote wyne or ewe ardent be holden in þe mouþ.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)81b/a : Stupor is wondringe of a newe þinge..a maner slepy slombirnes þat is a disposicioun to ful greuous sikenes, and namliche to lytargye.
- c1429 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)3662 : Ilk one of thaym herde tonges of landis whare thai ware borne And merveillid in hoege stupour in thire thinges alle þerforne.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?1482 Rev.Monk Eynsham339 : Ȝet beyng holde in a certeyn stupour and wondyr of mynde of suche thinges that he had seyne.
Note: Additional quot., sense 1.(b).
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. stupor.