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prettygoodwordsiderate (SID-er-ait) - v., (obs.) to strike down suddenly (as if by lightning).
With a strong connotation of struck so hard as to be stunned or paralyzed. The noun form, sideration, also is defined as sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis, which gives a little more context. At its Latin root, it's from siderari, to be struck by a star, as in to be sunstruck, from sider-, the stem form of sidus, star (or more commonly, a constellation).
---L.
With a strong connotation of struck so hard as to be stunned or paralyzed. The noun form, sideration, also is defined as sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis, which gives a little more context. At its Latin root, it's from siderari, to be struck by a star, as in to be sunstruck, from sider-, the stem form of sidus, star (or more commonly, a constellation).
---L.
