ppl. a. 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., trans. 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. Minstr., 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. Stopf. Brooke, in Life & Lett. (1917), II. 613. The sun set among the trees in a wildered glory of gold and crimson.
