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English
Etymology
Related to aghast and agaze.
Adjective
agazed (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Gazing with astonishment; amazed.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :All the whole army stood agazed on him.
a. 1600, Thomas Deloney, “William the Conquerour”, in John W. Hales, Frederick J. Furnivall, editors, Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances, volume 3, published 1868, page 154, lines 71–2:whereatt this dreadfull Conquerour / theratt was sore agazed, / & most in perill when he thought / all perills had beene past.
1872 September, John James Ingalls, “Blue Grass”, in The Kansas Magazine, volume 2, number 3, page 275:A huge bulk of purple and ebony vapor, preceded by a surging wave of pallid smoke, blots out the sky. Birds and insects disappear, and cattle abruptly stand agazed.
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