gazen.
/ɡeɪz/, U.S. /ɡeɪz/ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > thing gazed or stared at
gaze1542
gazing1548
gauring-stock1559
eyemark1595
gape-seed1699
stare1753
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell sig. E.ij This fustiane maistres and this giggisse gase.]
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 25 But this wise manne thought better to shewe of hymself an example of paciente suffreaunce, then to shewe a gase or sight for folkes to laugh at, in..contendyng wt his wife.
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vi. viii. 125 Outwarde apparell of the body, which is rather a gloriouse gase then anye godlye edifiying.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets v. sig. Bv Those howers that with gentle worke did frame, The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 34 Made of my Enemies the scorn and gaze . View more context for this quotation
1739 W. Melmoth Fitzosborne Lett. (1763) 382 Who are more the gaze and admiration of the people in general?
1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl II. vi. 90 His father lolled in his coach, and was the gaze of the village of Penry.
2. The act of looking fixedly or intently; a steady or intent look.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > stare or gaze
stare1553
gaze1566
goggle1651
gloze1654
gape1660
glower1715
dead set1781
death stare1818
death glare1819
eyeful1847
gape-seed1852
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Dvj For weryed with my bookishe gase, I noynte with supple oyle, My loytrous limmes.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. G Fancie that slippeth in with a gase, goeth out with a winke.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 406. ⁋6 In vain, you envious Streams, so fast you flow, To hide her from a Lover's ardent Gaze.
1718 Entertainer No. xxii. 148 Beauty such as mov'd the whole City to Gaze and Admiration.
1794 S. T. Coleridge Monody Death Chatterton (rev. ed.) in T. Chatterton Poems p. xxvii Thy sullen gaze she bade thee roll On Scenes that well might melt thy Soul.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvii. 244 Every event is a matter of gaze and gossip.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 235 The corpse..was exhibited during several days to the gaze of great multitudes.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iii. x. 187 Who was this to whom His followers turned their last gaze?
3. Phrases.† a. at first gaze: at first sight. to give (a person) the gaze: to be a spectator of, look on at. (to have) in gaze: in prospect. to set oneself at gaze: to expose oneself to view, display oneself.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > sight of something > [adverb] > at (first) sight
at (the, as to the) first sightc1390
at prime facea1413
by the first visage1422
at a lookc1450
on (also upon) (the) view of1489
prima faciec1500
at one sight1508
at the first show of1549
at first gaze1577
prima fronte1622
on (also in) the face of ita1656
on the view1823
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > stare or gaze at
bestarec1220
bigapea1250
to gape atc1290
fix14..
to stick one's eyes in (also into)c1485
attacha1500
porec1500
to take feeding (of)c1500
stare1510
(to have) in gaze1577
gaze1591
outstare1596
over-stare1600
devour1628
trysta1694
ogle1795
begaze1802
toise1888
fixate1889
rubberneck1897
eyeball1901
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be or become visible [verb (reflexive)] > present oneself publicly
showc1175
to set oneself at gaze1577
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 22/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I You must not thinke..that you were sent gouernour into Ireland,..to penne your selfe vp within a towne or citie, to giue rebels the gaze.
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 83/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II One of the earle his capteins presented him a band of Kerns..and withall demanded of the erle in what seruice he would haue them imploied? Marie (quoth he) let them stand by and giue vs the gaze.
a1652 R. Brome Court Begger ii. i. sig. O7v, in Five New Playes (1653) To set your selfe at gaze to draw them on.
a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 235 Repugnant to any apprehension that at first gaze did not appear a visible aid to the cause.
b. at gaze, †at a or the gaze; said of a deer (now chiefly Heraldry: see quot. 1828-40), also of persons: in the attitude of gazing, esp. in wonder, expectancy, bewilderment, etc. So in to stand at (†a, the) gaze, †to set at the gaze, etc. †to hold at gaze: to hold fascinated. Also with other prepositions as †in a gaze, gaze on, upon the gaze; †to put to the gaze: to puzzle, nonplus. See also agaze adv.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > staring or gazing
agazec1350
with all the eyes in one's head1483
gazingly1564
at a or the gaze1578
staringly1580
on (also upon) the stare1709
in a gazea1715
upon the gaze1817
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)]
marvela1425
esmarvel1477
amaze?1533
wondera1561
bewondera1586
to hold at gaze1594
admire1598
wonder-maze1603
astonish1611
thunderstrike1613
surprise1655
to astonish the natives1801
emmarvel1834
zap1967
mind-blow1970
gobsmack1987
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > perplex, nonplus [phrase]
to bring (drive, or put) to one's wit's end1377
to cast (also throw) a mist before a person's eyes?a1475
to set (also run) on ground1600
to make butter and cheese of1642
to put to the gaze1646
philogrobolized in one's brains1653
to strike all of (on) a heap1711
to blow, cast, throw stour in one's eyes1823
knot1860
to give (one) furiously to think1910
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 23 I haue read..that the whole heard of Deare stande at the gaze, if they smell a sweete apple.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. A4 Whose eye holds wanton Venus at a gaze.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 309 A sheep-heard..strucken with the majestie of the man, stood at gaze vpon him.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 137 Especially as many as were English: who were at a gaze looking strange one upon another.
1646 Sir C. Cavendish Let. to Pell in R. Vaughan Protect. Cromwell (1838) II. 374 The business is too difficult for me to judge of, for it puts our learned men here to the gaze.
a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 140 I had still a likelyhood in gaze.
1680 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Epist. Pref. sig. a2 Pindar is generally known to be a dark writer, to want Connexion..to soar out of sight, and leave his Reader at a Gaze.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ix. 162 This Vapor..had so long set the Nations at a Gaze.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 75 And when the time of setting out the fleet came on, all were in a gaze whither it was to go.
1749 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Spirit Patriotism 22 All indifferent men stood as it were at a gaze.
1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation iv. 140 Where..the earnest intelligent contemplation of God is the constant exercise, there is nothing..that can so set his adoring myriads upon the gaze, as some new..evolution of the character of God.
1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. (at cited word) The hart, stag, buck, or hind, when borne in coat-armour, looking affrontée or full-faced, is said to be at gaze..but all other beasts in this attitude are called guardant.
1859 J. White Hist. France (1860) 20 On this occasion all Europe was on the gaze.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xix. §5. 310 Vert, three Harts at gaze or.
1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ II. lxi. 407 The great body of the people seem to have stood silently at gaze.
c. at gaze: by sight (said of a hunting-dog).
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1865 G. F. Berkeley My Life & Recoll. II. 236 I called on my deer dog ‘Thor’ to help me, for he could run a deer by nose as well as at gaze.
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[compare French regard (J. M. E. Lacan Quatre Concepts Fondamentaux de la Psychanalyse (1973) viii. 78, translated in quot. 1977).] A way of regarding people or things which is considered to embody certain aspects of the relationship between the observer and the observed; esp. as expressed in art, literature, film, etc., by how an author chooses (consciously or not) to direct his or her (and hence the audience's) attention. Chiefly with the.Frequently in the male gaze n. a characteristically male perspective, esp. one thought to reveal chauvinistic, misogynistic, or voyeuristic attitudes.
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1973 N. Burch Theory of Film Practice p. ix Expanding and intensifying the illusionism of that spatial continuum in which the beholder's gaze and attention is..free.., Welle's depth of field and Rossellini's long shots permit the beholder to encounter and explore the visual field.
1975 Screen Autumn 11 The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure.
1977 tr. J. M. E. Lacan Four Fund. Concepts Psychoanal. vi. 73 In our relation to things, in so far as this relation is constituted by the way of vision, and ordered in the figures of representation, something slips, passes, is transmitted, from stage to stage, and is always to some degree eluded in it—that is what we call the gaze.
1979 E. A. Snow Stud. Vermeer 28 The women [in Degas' paintings] are..delivered not only from the male gaze but from any introjected awareness of it.
1985 Sydney Morning Herald 27 July 47/4 Close Remarks is a considerably more rarified and intellectually challenging exhibition than Heartlands, and viewers will find it quite educational, for it addresses recent controversies about, for example, the politics of representation and the politics of the gaze.
1990 Rouge Winter 21/1 In lesbian theatre we can assert the lesbian gaze as spectators and critics.
1991 Women: Cultural Rev. Spring 60 She distinguished three aspects to the gaze: that of the eye of the camera registering the pro-filmic event, that of the spectator viewing the film, and that of the characters on the screen looking at each other.
1996 Afr. Amer. Rev. 30 20/2 The narrator's adoption of the white gaze is perhaps most obvious, however, when he analyzes at length the ‘three classes’ of ‘colored people’ in Jacksonville.
2001 Jrnl. Gender Stud. (Nexis) Mar. 94 The male poet's descriptive strategies are seen as objectifying his female addressee and the subject of his discourse in the same way that the male ‘gaze’ objectifies the woman in narrative cinema.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
gazev.
/ɡeɪz/, U.S. /ɡeɪz/ 1.
a. intransitive. †In early use: To look vacantly or curiously about; also, to stare, open one's eyes (with astonishment). In modern use: To look fixedly, intently, or deliberately at something. Now chiefly literary.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze
stareOE
gawc1175
darea1225
porec1300
muse1340
glowc1374
gogglec1380
gazec1386
glore?a1400
glopc1400
govec1480
glower?a1513
gowk1513
daze1523
amuse1532
glew1587
to feed one's eyes1590
to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598
to shoot one's eyes1602
glazea1616
stargaze1639
gaum1691
to stare like a stuck pig1702
ygaze1737
gawk1785
to feed one's sight1813
gloze1853
glow1856
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1003 The peple gazed vp and doun, For they were glad..To han a newe lady.
c1450 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 27 Be symple in cheer; caste not þi looke a-side, Gase [Harl. 2251 gaase] not about, turnynge þi siȝt oueral.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. ix. 7 Go not aboute gasinge in euery layne of the cite.
?1545 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture sig. B Gase not to and fro as one that were voyde of curtyse.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 4 Jan. (1974) VIII. 4 I did make them all gaze to see themselves served so nobly.
1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation i. 70 That the Hare finder should give the Hare three Sohoe's before he put her from her Lear, to make the Grey-hounds gaze and attend her rising.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 547 With trembling Heart Gazing he stood, nor would, nor could depart.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 116 He stops, gazes round him, and seems to recover his natural tranquility.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms ii. 507 Long, long they gaze with meeting eyes.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xi. 71 Men gazed and wondered in every land.
b. Const. at, on, upon. Also in indirect passive.
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1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Lvv And stode gasinge on him and feling his apparell.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 43 I ran too Priamus razd court, at castel I gazed.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes v. Ded. 406 You have brought me forth into the open field, and set me up to be gazed on, and baited at.
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 57 The Hart..When he is..not afraid, he wonders at every thing he seeth, and taketh pleasure to gaze at them.
1758 S. Johnson Idler 27 May 57 The natives..gaze upon a tumbler.
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 42 I have often noticed the mute rapture with which he would gaze upon her in company.
1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. i. 25 The boy gazing at the red and gold and green of the sunset sky.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 387 So up the long street then, Gazing about, well gazed at, went the men.
c. quasi-transitive with adverb or phrase expressing result.
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1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 12 The amazed Emperor, When Cleopatra anchor'd in the Bay..Like his own Statue stood, and gaz'd the world away.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 497 An obsequious Crowd, As if by stern Medusa gaz'd to Stones.
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 218 So Scotia's Queen, as slowly dawned the day, Rose on her couch and gazed her soul away.
2. transitive. To stare at, look fixedly at. poetic.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > stare or gaze at
bestarec1220
bigapea1250
to gape atc1290
fix14..
to stick one's eyes in (also into)c1485
attacha1500
porec1500
to take feeding (of)c1500
stare1510
(to have) in gaze1577
gaze1591
outstare1596
over-stare1600
devour1628
trysta1694
ogle1795
begaze1802
toise1888
fixate1889
rubberneck1897
eyeball1901
1591 S. Daniel Sonnet xxvi, in Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella 75 When if she grieue to gaze her in her glasse..Goe you my verse, goe tell her what she was.
1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Cc3v So doth the plow-man gaze the wandring starre.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 258 Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, And gaz'd a while the ample Skie. View more context for this quotation
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 267 As who dare gaze the sun.
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