† clumsed, clumst, ppl. a. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 4 clumsed, clumsd, clomsed, clumst(e, klumst, clowmst, clomst, 4–5 clumsid, -yd, (7, 9 dial. clumpst).
[f. clumse v. + -ed.]
1. Benumbed with cold; numb, palsied, bereft of sensation and power of grasping.
| 1388 Wyclif Isa. xxxv. 3 Coumforte ȝe clumsid, ether comelid, hondis. ― Zeph. iii. 16 Sion, thin hondis be not clumsid. 1483 Cath. Angl. 69 Clumsyd, eneruatus, euiratus. 1674 Ray N.C. Words s.v. Clumps, Clumpst with cold, i.e. benumbed. 1873 Swaledale Gloss., Clumpsed. |
2. fig. Dazed: a. Mentally benumbed or stunned, dumbfounded. b. Of a faculty: Rendered powerless, stupefied.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 12213 (Cott.) Clumsd he was quen he can here. Ibid. 12227 (Fairf.) My hert is clumsed for to here. a 1400 Gospel of Nichodemus in Herrig Archiv LIII. 418 Þe fendes..Said we er clomsed gret and smalle With yhone kaytyf so kene. c 1440 Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xlv, The fende..as a clumsid caytyf bounden wyth the mighte of Jhesu. |
3. fig. Hardened in sin, dead to moral influences.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter xvii. 6 Men that er klumst in thaire synn. Ibid. cxviii. 70 Thaire hert is lopird, that is, clumst, thorgh pride and enuy. Ibid. cxix. 6 When i forbad thaim thaire illis, thai ware clumste, and strafe agayns me. 1340 Pr. Consc. 1651 He es outher clomsed, or wode. |
4. dial. (Cf. clumse a.)
| 1877 N.W. Lincolnsh. Gloss., Clumpst, stolid, surly, uncouth, ill-mannered, taciturn. |
Hence † clumsthead, † clumstness, mental or moral stupefaction; moral deadness.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter lvii, 4 Þaire woednes is clowmsthed [MS. N. clumsthede], þat will not be turned. Ibid. xxx. 27 Connynge of ill & clomstnes in syn. |