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† clumsed, clumst, ppl. a. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 4 clumsed, clumsd, clomsed, clumst(e, klumst, clowmst, clomst, 4–5 clumsid, -yd, (7, 9 dial. clumpst).
[f. clumse v. + -ed.]
1. Benumbed with cold; numb, palsied, bereft of sensation and power of grasping.
1388Wyclif Isa. xxxv. 3 Coumforte ȝe clumsid, ether comelid, hondis. ― Zeph. iii. 16 Sion, thin hondis be not clumsid. 1483Cath. Angl. 69 Clumsyd, eneruatus, euiratus. 1674Ray N.C. Words s.v. Clumps, Clumpst with cold, i.e. benumbed. 1873Swaledale Gloss., Clumpsed.
2. fig. Dazed:
a. Mentally benumbed or stunned, dumbfounded.
b. Of a faculty: Rendered powerless, stupefied.
a1300Cursor M. 12213 (Cott.) Clumsd he was quen he can here. Ibid. 12227 (Fairf.) My hert is clumsed for to here. a1400Gospel of Nichodemus in Herrig Archiv LIII. 418 Þe fendes..Said we er clomsed gret and smalle With yhone kaytyf so kene. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xlv, The fende..as a clumsid caytyf bounden wyth the mighte of Jhesu.
3. fig. Hardened in sin, dead to moral influences.
a1340Hampole Psalter xvii. 6 Men that er klumst in thaire synn. Ibid. cxviii. 70 Thaire hert is lopird, that is, clumst, thorgh pride and enuy. Ibid. cxix. 6 When i forbad thaim thaire illis, thai ware clumste, and strafe agayns me. 1340Pr. Consc. 1651 He es outher clomsed, or wode.
4. dial. (Cf. clumse a.)
1877N.W. Lincolnsh. Gloss., Clumpst, stolid, surly, uncouth, ill-mannered, taciturn.
Hence † clumsthead, † clumstness, mental or moral stupefaction; moral deadness.
a1340Hampole Psalter lvii, 4 Þaire woednes is clowmsthed [MS. N. clumsthede], þat will not be turned. Ibid. xxx. 27 Connynge of ill & clomstnes in syn. |