mazed, ppl. a.
(meɪzd)
[f. maze v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb: Stupefied, dazed, crazed; bewildered, confused; † terrified.
Mazed Monday (dial. Cornw.): (a) = Maze-Monday (maze n. 5); (b) the Monday before Christmas (E.D.D.).
| c 1350 Will. Palerne 884 So witerly was þat word wounde to hert, þat he ferd as a mased man an marred neiȝ honde. 1493 Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 71 b, They..walked up & downe in y⊇ countre lyke mased beestes. 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. viii. 38 Like mazed deare..they flew. 1613 Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 185 Many maz'd considerings, did throng And prest in with this Caucion. 1755 Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 342, I said ‘To be sure it is some mazed man’. 1830 A. E. Bray Fitz of F. iii. (1884) 28 He had very much the appearance of what the country people here call a mazed man. 1836 Keble in Lyra Apost. (1849) 222 The voice ineffable Wakening your mazed thoughts with an Almighty spell. |
Hence † ˈmazedly adv., † ˈmazedness.
| c 1386 Chaucer Clerk's T. 1005 She ferde as she had stert out of a sleepe, Til she out of hire mazednesse abreyde. 14.. Hoccleve Min. Poems (1892) 44 Syn my spirit nat dar putte vp his bille,..But in his mazidnesse abydith stille. 1530 Palsgr. 243/2 Masydnesse, musardie, desuere, effroy. |