madding

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English

Pronunciation

Adjective

madding

  1. (archaic) Affected with madness; raging; furious.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      The madding wheels of brazen chariots raged.
    • 1670, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, 9th edition, page 26:
      Check thy self, thou Air-monger; that with a madding thought, thus chasest fleeting shadows.
    • 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: R Dodsley, , published 1753, →OCLC:
      Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Verb

madding

  1. present participle and gerund of mad

Danish

Pronunciation

Noun

madding c (singular definite maddingen, plural indefinite maddinger)

  1. fishbait

Inflection

Declension of madding
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative madding maddingen maddinger maddingerne
genitive maddings maddingens maddingers maddingernes

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