Crazed

ppl. a. [f. CRAZE v. + -ED¹.]

  † 1.  Broken, cracked; flawed, damaged. Obs.

a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 4830. Twa crasid gatis.

1477.  Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 20. A Crased shyp, whiche in drownyng her self, Drowneth many other.

1528.  Test. Ebor. (Surtees), V. 248. To the mending of one crasid chaliche.

c. 1592.  Marlowe, Jew of Malta, I. i.

1638.  R. Baker, trans. Balzac’s Lett., II. (1654), 57. Cast on shore by a storm in a craised Vessel.

1819.  Shelley, P. Bell the Third, VI. x. Like a crazed bell-chime, out of tune.

  2.  spec. Of pottery: Having the surface or glaze covered with minute cracks.

1874.  Punch, 9 May, 197/2. When the glaze on china-ware cracks, it is said technically to be ‘crazed.’

1880.  Webster, Supp., Crazed pottery, that which has the glazing covered with irregular cracks.

  † 3.  fig. Impaired, damaged, unsound; ruined in estate, bankrupt; of cracked reputation. Obs.

1590.  Shaks., Mids. N., I. i. 92. Yeelde Thy crazed title to my certaine right.

1621–51.  Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. IV. i. Why may not the mother be a whore, a peevish drunken flurt … a crased peece, a foole?

1727.  Swift, What passed in London. Several crazed and starving creditors.

  † 4.  Broken down in health; diseased; infirm.

1555.  Eden, Decades, 98. Leauynge euer the crased men behynd hym.

1572.  J. Jones, Bathes Buckstone, 10 b. The best drinke for the crased at Buckstone, is meane Ale.

1632.  Lithgow, Trav., III. (1682), 79. With a fearfull heart, a crased body, a thirsty stomach.

1645.  Rutherford, Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845), 247. Caring for his crazed body.

  5.  Mentally impaired or deranged; insane; = CRAZY 4. Cf. cracked.

1592.  Davies, Immort. Soul, xiv. (1714), 17. No craz’d Brain could ever yet propound … so vain and fond a Thought.

a. 1652.  J. Smith, Sel. Disc., viii. 400. Crazed and distracted persons.

1711.  Hearne, Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), III. 170. I took him before for a craz’d Man.

1879.  C. Geikie, Christ, xxxviii. 448. A mere crazed enthusiast.

  6.  Comb., as crazed-headed adj.

1678.  Bunyan, Pilgr., I. 5. A Company of these Craz’d-headed Coxcombs.