awestrike

1. (transitive, now rare) To strike (someone) with awe; to make (someone) awestruck.Examples: "Behold the God himself, whose dreadful brow Awe-strikes the soul to speechless homage!"; "The idea of these “ladies” at first annoyed him; but the humble habitation which they had chosen—humble to poverty—impressed him with the belief that, however the “ladies” might awe-strike the Welsh peasantry, he should find in them nothing that would impress him with the idea of station."; "Ceremony is a scarecrow to awe-strike fools."archaictransitive