crazed, ppl. a.
(kreɪzd)
[f. craze v. + -ed1.]
† 1. Broken, cracked; flawed, damaged. Obs.
| a 1400–50 Alexander 4830 Twa crasid gatis. 1477 Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 20 A Crased shyp, whiche in drownyng her self, Drowneth many other. 1528 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 248 To the mending of one crasid chaliche. c 1592 Marlowe Jew of Malta i. i. 1638 Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. ii. (1654) 57 Cast on shore by a storm in a craised Vessel. 1819 Shelley P. Bell the Third vi. x, Like a crazed bell-chime, out of tune. |
2. spec. Of pottery: Having the surface or glaze covered with minute cracks.
| 1874 Punch 9 May, When the glaze on china-ware cracks, it is said technically to be crazed. 1880 Webster Supp., Crazed pottery, that which has the glazing covered with irregular cracks. |
† 3. fig. Impaired, damaged, unsound; ruined in estate, bankrupt; of cracked reputation. Obs.
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 92 Yeelde Thy crazed title to my certaine right. 1621–51 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. i, Why may not the mother be a whore, a peevish drunken flurt..a crased peece, a foole? 1727 Swift What passed in London, Several crazed and starving creditors. |
† 4. Broken down in health; diseased; infirm.
| 1555 Eden Decades 98 Leauynge euer the crased men behynd hym. 1572 J. Jones Bathes Buckstone 10 b, The best drinke for the crased at Buckstone, is meane Ale. 1632 Lithgow Trav. iii. (1682) 79 With a fearfull heart, a crased body, a thirsty stomach. 1645 Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845) 247 Caring for his crazed body. |
5. Mentally impaired or deranged; insane; = crazy 4. Cf. cracked.
| 1592 Davies Immort. Soul xiv. (1714) 17 No craz'd Brain could ever yet propound..so vain and fond a Thought. a 1652 J. Smith Sel. Disc. viii. 400 Crazed and distracted persons. 1711 Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 170, I took him..for a craz'd Man. 1876 C. Geikie Christ xxxviii. 448 A mere crazed enthusiast. |
6. Comb., as crazed-headed adj.
| 1678 Bunyan Pilgr. i. 5 A Company of these Craz'd-headed Coxcombs. |