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.
