madded, ppl. a. Now rare.
(ˈmædɪd)
[f. mad v. + -ed1.]
Rendered mad, in various senses of the adj. a. Deprived of reason or intelligence. b. Excited to fury, enraged.
| c 1580 Sidney Ps. xxii. vii, I am enclos'd with yong bulls madded rowt. 1611 Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 313 All Curses madded Hecuba gaue the Greekes. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 290 The two Confitents..were by the madded multitude stoned to death. 1681 Wharton Disc. Soul World Wks. (1683) 647 But Tycho-Brahe..shall..unfold to us this matter far different from the Madded Nursery of Peripateticks. 1766 Nicol Poems 240 Shall I so besotted be And madded, as to sell My soul to flames.. ? 1872 Blackie Lays Highl. 101 Downward Sheer the madded torrent pours. |