From Charles Lamb's *Tales from Shakespeare* (1807). The phrase "This strange news of his lost father soon roused the prince from the **stupid fit** into which he had fallen" uses **stupid** in which sense?

In older English, *stupid* preserved its Latin sense from *stupere* ("to be stunned, struck dumb") — it described a state of *dullness of sensation* or *being in a daze*, not low intelligence. Lamb's *stupid fit* names Ferdinand's stunned, unresponsive grief — he is *roused* from it by news of his lost father. **B** captures this older sense. - *Unintelligent* (A) is the modern dominant sense, anachronistic for Lamb's usage. - *Arrogant* and *talkative* are unrelated. NDA English tests recognition of older senses in canonical literary texts. The related modern word is *stupor* — *a state of near-unconsciousness*.