ob-stĭpesco and ob-stŭpesco, pŭi, 3
* V. inch. n. and a., to become senseless, lose feeling; to be stupefied, benumbed (syn.: obtorpesco; class.).
* Lit.: apes obstupescunt potantes,Varr. R. R. 3, 16: corpus,Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 56.
* Trop., to be astonished, astounded, amazed, to be struck with amazement: quid hic, malum, adstans obstipuisti,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 51: ob haec beneficia, quibus illi obstupescunt,Cic. Att. 5, 21, 7: ejus aspectu cum obstupuisset bubulcus,id. Div. 2, 23, 50: visu Aeneas,Verg. A. 5, 90: obstupuerunt stupore magno,Vulg. Marc. 5, 42 et saep.
* With acc., to wonder or be astonished at any thing (post-class.), Cassiod. Var. 2, 39.

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