amazeful
English
Etymology
amaze + -ful
Adjective
amazeful (comparative more amazeful, superlative most amazeful)
- (archaic) Full of amazement; astonished.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Twenty-fourth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], imprinted at London: By Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, OCLC 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380, lines 7–11, pages 249–250:
- [B]ats with breasts and wings / Clasp fast the walls, and each to other clings, / But, swept off from their coverts, up they rise / And fly with murmurs in amazeful guise / About the cavern; […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for amazeful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)