ppl. a. [f. BE- 2 + MAZE v.] Stupefied, bewildered. (Cf. AMAZE v.)

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 270. Isboset on Ebrewish is ‘bimased mon’ on Englisch.

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a. 1400.  Chester Pl., II. 93. And lefte us lyinge … Al bemased in a soune.

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1783.  Cowper, Task, V. 848. Intellects bemaz’d in endless doubts.

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1879.  Howells, L. Aroostook, xxvi. 311. Staniford stood bemazed, though he knew enough to take the hand she yielded him.

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