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2010/07/09

At Oxford with the word daze




One of the senses of daze  construed by  Oxford dictionary...    But what hoolyhaw a dictionary is... that garbled rapture to crackles and looms in its precipatant  Worlds of crevassed span and cherished belief.        Clamber roust and gamble on the boards                its relief.




1529 SKELTON Ph. Sparowe 1103


She made me sore amased Vpon her when I gased..
My eyne were so dased.


1570 B. GOOGE Pop. Kingd. I. (1880)

11 They are but trumprye and deceytes, to daze the foolish eies.  



1631 HEYWOOD Fair Maid of West II. I. Wks. 1874 II. 

352 To daze all eyes that shall behold her state.  



1847 TENNYSON Princ. v. 11



The sudden light Dazed me half-blind. 








1864 SKEAT Uhland's Poems 

152 Shall earthly splendour that strong eyesight daze?


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