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English
Verb
mased
- simple past and past participle of mase
Anagrams
- ADMEs, Adems, Dames, Demas, Sedam, Smead, dames, desma, mades, meads, mesad
Middle English
Etymology
From the past participle of masen.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mased
- Bewildered, amazed, perplexed, or misled.
- Terrified, scared, worried, or despairing; experiencing trauma or distress.
- Insane, psychotic, mad or angry; not of sound or calm mind
- Tired, weary (from shock or stress)
- c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:
Al is ylyche goode to me / Ioy or sorowe wherso hyt be / For I haue felynge in no thynge / But as it were a mased thynge / Alway in poynt to falle a down- Everything is equally good to me— / Joy or sorrow, however it might be— / For I feel nothing about anything, / But am like some dazed thing, / Always on the brink of falling down.
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