单词 | amazeful |
释义 | amazefuladj. Now rare.Apparently not recorded between early 17th cent. and mid 19th centuries. 1. That causes one to feel amazement, wonder, or fear; bewildering; terrifying. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > mentally prostrated or paralysed > mentally prostrating or paralysing amazeful1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. lxxxiii Amasefull, effraieux. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1724) III. 122 In both amazeful solitariness. 1606 J. Marston Wonder of Women i. i. sig. A4v Shine with amazefull terror on these wals. 1847 J. S. Knowles Fortescue xxxv. 139/2 Here was matter for apprehension—for surmise, amazeful and excruciating! 1889 E. Semple Let. 12 Jan. in Montana (1987) 37 19/1 To assume military control of portions of this jurisdiction..is amazeful and cannot be entertained for a moment. 1901 E. W. Peattie Beleaguered Forest i. 12 A chance word, spoken in pique, had shown me in strong light all that had been obscured and mystic and amazeful. 1948 S. Sassoon Meredith ii. 23 The rapt experience of youth's first love—innocent, amazeful, and unreasoning. 2. Struck with amazement; bewildered, stupefied; (also occasionally) infatuated. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > mentally prostrated or paralysed witlessc1000 amazedOE mazeda1325 tottyc1405 tavert1535 moped1606 amazeful1608 bewhatleda1643 anergic1874 labile1883 punchy1932 slug-nutty1933 slap-happy1936 slappy1937 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 79 The Queen, nigh sunk in an Amaze-full Swoun. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvii. 251 Who at length Put all the youth of Greece besides, in most amazefull rout. a1859 W. C. Roscoe Poems (1860) 10 A voice, whereat amazeful Listening we lend our souls to thee. 1902 R. Hughes Whirlwind iv. vi. 284 Devouring her with such amazeful eyes as the damned in hell turned upon Dante and Vergil. 1930 Railroad Trainman 47 278/3 Stooping down and looking with amazeful eyes They saw the napkins, linen clothes, and then believed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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