ppl. a. [f. AMAZE v. + -ED.]
† 1. Driven stupid; stunned or stupefied, as by a blow; out of one’s wits. Obs.
a. 1230. Ancr. R., 284. Nai, seið sum amased þing.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 21. I wot neuer, what I am … But muse as he, that were amased.
1447. Bokenham, Lyvys of Seyntys, 14. As a man amasyd he sodeynly dede abreyde.
1551. Turner, Herbal (1568), 9. Leopardes bayne layd to a scorpione maketh hym vtterly amased and num.
1586. T. B., La Primaudaye’s Fr. Acad., 491. She strake hir head so hard against the wall, that she fell downe amazed.
a. 1604. Hanmer, Chron. Irel. (1633), 20. The other gave Starcuterus such a blow, that he stood a great while amazed.
1683. Lady Russell, Lett., I. v. 14. A woman amazed with grief.
1704. Pope, Windsor For., 109. Sudden they seize th’ amaz’d defenceless prize.
† 2. Bewildered, confounded, confused, perplexed. Of things: Thrown into confusion. Obs.
c. 1450. Merlin, xiii. 199. Thei were so a-masid that thei wiste not what to do.
1513. More, Rich. III. (1641), 249. The poore, amased, and desolate commons of this Realme.
1598. Yong, Diana, 215. One, that is amazed in minde, Not knowing whether he doth dreame or no.
1608. Yorksh. Trag., I. iv. 207. All his studies amazed.
1651. Jer. Taylor, Serm., I. xxvii. 343. The contradiction is multiplyed and the labyrinths more amazed.
† 3. Struck with sudden terror; terror-stricken, terrified, alarmed. Obs.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Chan. Yem. Prol. & T., 383. Be ye no thyng amased [v.r. amazed, a-mased, amasud].
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, III. xxvii. To the kinge she ran So amased in her mortall wo.
1611. Bible, Judg. xx. 41. When the men of Israel turned againe, the men of Beniamin were amased.
1640. Fuller, Abel Rediv., Luther (1867), I. 67. Amazed not so much for her own as for her children’s preservation.
4. Lost in wonder or astonishment.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 32. With woonder amazed.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., III. ii. 220. I am amazed at your passionate words.
1659. Hammond, On Ps., Pref. 16. Admiring and glorifying God as he stands amazed.
1782. Cowper, J. Gilpin, xli. The callender, amazed to see His neighbour in such trim.
1855. Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea, § 741. We are utterly amazed at the offices which have been performed … by the animalcula.
