Meanings
adjectiveagazed (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteGazing with astonishment; amazed.
All the whole army stood agazed on him.
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]2 more examples
whereatt this dreadfull Conquerour / theratt was sore agazed, / & most in perill when he thought / all perills had beene past.
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 71–2A 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.
1872 September, John James Ingalls, “Blue Grass”, in The Kansas Magazine, volume 2, number 3, page 275
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