agazed

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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     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.

Further reading

• “agazed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.