amazeful
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
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. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, pages 249–250, lines 7–11:
- [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; […]
References[edit]
- “amazeful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.