adv. (old, and long obsolete: now American thieves’).—Astonished; open-eyed (MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon). [Century Dictionary: The examples cited (infra) are the only ones found.]
c. 1400. The Chester Plays, ii. 85. The were so sore AGASED.
1557. SURREY, Songes and Sonnettes.
| As ankered faste my spretes doe all resorte | |
| To stande AGAZED. |
1591. SHAKESPEARE, 1 Henry VI., i. 1.
| The devil was in armes: | |
| All the whole army stood AGAZ’D on him. |
1600. [FARR, Select Poetry (1845), II. 438. Of understanding rob’d I stand AGAZD.
16[?]. Percy Folio MSS. [FURNIVALL]. Whereatt this dreadful conqueror Thereatt was sore AGAZED.
