bedaze, v.
(bɪˈdeɪz)
Also 7 bedeaze (Sc.).
[f. be- 2 + daze.]
Emphatic form of daze. Hence bedazed ppl. a., Dazed, stupefied; besotted.
| a 1605 Montgomerie Poems (1821) 173 Quhais frostie head..Bedeazit evry vane. 1870 Daily News 10 June, The baby-acrobat may fall, bedazed and stunned. 1882 E. Plumptre Eccles. (Camb. Bible for Sch.) 167 The besotted and bedazed spiritual pride which St. Paul paints by the participle ‘puffed up.’ |