† aˈmated, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. amate v.1 + -ed.]
Dismayed, overwhelmed, confounded.
| 1592 Greene Groatsw. Wit (1874) 15 He that tamed monsters, stoode amated at beauties ornaments. 1600 Fairfax Tasso xi. xii. 197 Stood husht and still, amated and amased. 1656 Trapp Expos. Matt. x. 19 (1868) 154/1 Demosthenes..was..sometimes so amated that he had not a word to say. |