astare
adv/əˈstɛɚ/
Etymology From a- + stare.
1
Staring; amazed.
- One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, / Stood stupefied,1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, in Men and Women, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 140:
- passing the long college all astare with windows1902, Mary Johnston, chapter 9, in Audrey,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 125:
2 more examples
- A flashlight: Hugh Barton and his bride limply astare—frightened;1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 27:
- […] the Man of the House and his wife greeted us, their children astare with wondering eyes.1968, Austin Clarke, chapter 19, in A Penny in the Clouds, Dublin: Moytura Press, published 1990, page 151: