wildered, ppl. a.
(ˈwɪldəd)
Also 7 wildred.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. That has lost one's way; straying, ‘lost’.
| 1656 in Clarendon Hist. Reb. xv. §112 Like poor wilder'd Travellers, perceiving that We have lost our way. 1742 Young Nt. Th. ix. 1703 Ye, who guide the wilder'd in the waves. 1818 Keats Endym. iii. 219 The wilder'd stranger. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 46 A sound as of a wildered wind, Half moan, half sigh. |
b. fig. At a loss, perplexed, bewildered.
| 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 149 See Naaman here, in what a wildred case he is! 1689 J. O. tr. Cowley's Plants i. Scurvy Grass 31 Nor does it to your wilder'd Sense appear, Where their Pain is, 'cause it is every where. 1789 W. Blake Songs Innoc., Dream 5 Troubl'd, wilder'd, and forlorn. 1813 Scott Rokeby iv. xxix, In secret, doubtless, to pursue The schemes his wilder'd fancy drew. 1881 Kipling Departm. Ditties, Simla Dancers iv, And murmurs of past merriment pursue Your 'wildered clerks that they indite in vain. |
2. Of a place or region: In which one may lose one's way; pathless, wild.
| a 1810 Shelley M. Nicholson Fragm. 26 Our ghosts, whilst raves the maddened storm, Will sweep at midnight o'er the wildered wave. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstrel I. 203 Brushing through the wilder'd dell. 1860 Patmore Faithf. for Ever i. i, A long, green slip of wilder'd land. |
b. Confused, disordered; mingled confusedly.
| 1853 C. Brontë Villette xlii, Certain..feelings..when reviewed must strike us as things wildered and whirling. 1909 S. A. Brooke in Life & Lett. (1917) II. 613 The sun set among the trees in a wildered glory of gold and crimson. |