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Stupefac(t, Stupifak, adj. Also: stupefak, stupifact. [e.m.E. stupefact (1590), L. stupefactus.] Stupefied, stunned, amazed; silenced; unable to think, speak or act, due to astonishment, grief, timidity, etc. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1460.
Thus in a stair quhy standis thow stupifak [L. stupefak] Gouand all day c1510 Prester John 310b. 1513 Doug. vii ii 34.
Hys fader … The word reft from his mouth as that he spak, And followis on the answer stupefac 1513 Doug. xiii vi 206.
The Latynys, quhill he spak, … beheld hym stupifak, Of hys wys gracius answeris wonderand 1533 Boece 506b.
He … be drede and sorow standing stupefact 1549 Compl. 6/33.
I … hes tane ane temerare consait to present to ȝour nobil grace ane tracteit … Bot ȝit I vas lang stupefact ande timide for falt of peremptoir conclusione I nocht heffand ane perfyte determinatione of quhat purpos or mater that var maist necessair … to be dilatit c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus ii 627.
So thair anone he fell into dispair Betaucht with sturt; … All stupefact, wist not quhat to haue done c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus iii 152.
Be blyith and nathing stupefact 1571 Disc. tviching estait A vi.
How stand ȝe stupifact? Speik I pray ȝow a1578 Pitsc. I 116/3. c1590 J. Stewart 34/148.
Vith stupifact distressit quaking hart 1587-99 Hume 116/214.
Like a brute beast, wil remain for a season, altogether stupifact and confused a1605 Montg. Sonn. xlv 7.
Half mangd almost, als stupefact as stone c1610 Melville Mem. 378.
And yet they all maruell with stupifak myndis, to se your affaires sa vnkannely handled