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crazed, ppl. a.|kreɪzd|
[f. craze v. + -ed1.]
†1. Broken, cracked; flawed, damaged. Obs.
a1400–50Alexander 4830 Twa crasid gatis. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 20 A Crased shyp, whiche in drownyng her self, Drowneth many other. 1528Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 248 To the mending of one crasid chaliche. c1592Marlowe Jew of Malta i. i. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. ii. (1654) 57 Cast on shore by a storm in a craised Vessel. 1819Shelley P. Bell the Third vi. x, Like a crazed bell-chime, out of tune.
2. spec. Of pottery: Having the surface or glaze covered with minute cracks.
1874Punch 9 May, When the glaze on china-ware cracks, it is said technically to be crazed. 1880Webster Supp., Crazed pottery, that which has the glazing covered with irregular cracks.
†3. fig. Impaired, damaged, unsound; ruined in estate, bankrupt; of cracked reputation. Obs.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 92 Yeelde Thy crazed title to my certaine right. 1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. i, Why may not the mother be a whore, a peevish drunken flurt..a crased peece, a foole? 1727Swift What passed in London, Several crazed and starving creditors.
†4. Broken down in health; diseased; infirm.
1555Eden Decades 98 Leauynge euer the crased men behynd hym. 1572J. Jones Bathes Buckstone 10 b, The best drinke for the crased at Buckstone, is meane Ale. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. (1682) 79 With a fearfull heart, a crased body, a thirsty stomach. 1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845) 247 Caring for his crazed body.
5. Mentally impaired or deranged; insane; = crazy 4. Cf. cracked.
1592Davies Immort. Soul xiv. (1714) 17 No craz'd Brain could ever yet propound..so vain and fond a Thought. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. viii. 400 Crazed and distracted persons. 1711Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 170, I took him..for a craz'd Man. 1876C. Geikie Christ xxxviii. 448 A mere crazed enthusiast.
6. Comb., as crazed-headed adj.
1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. 5 A Company of these Craz'd-headed Coxcombs. |