mazement
(ˈmeɪzmənt)
Also 6 masement.
[f. maze v. + -ment.]
Stupor; a state of stupor or trance. Also = amazement.
| c 1580 Munday View Sundry Examples (Shaks. Soc. 1851) 97 Call to mind the greevous and suddain Earthquake..which caused such a mazement through the whole Citie. 1598 Tofte Alba (1880) 72 Though that it be such As euery eye with masement it doth fill. 1727 Bailey vol. II, Mazement, amazement. 1890 W. A. Wallace Only a Sister 167 Just wait till I get near you, and we'll see if I can't find another mazement for you. 1901 Kipling Kim xi. 264 A very few white people, but many Asiatics, can throw themselves into a mazement as it were by repeating their own names over and over again to themselves. |