agazed

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English

Etymology

Related to aghast and agaze.

Adjective

agazed (not comparable)

  1. (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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