craz'dとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

craz'd (comparative more craz'd, superlative most craz'd)

1. Archaic form of crazed.
   • 1691, T[homas] Durfey, Love for Money: or, The Boarding School. A Comedy., London: […] Abel Roper […], page 13:

     […] my Lord ſtar’d at him like a ſtuck Pig, and he as much at my Lord, till having diſpatch’d him I was fain to recover all by ſwearing he was a craz’d old Edge Hill Officer, that I kept upon Charity.

   • 1697, God’s Judgments Against Whoring. Being an Essay Towards a General History of It, […], volume I, London: […] Richard Baldwin, […], page 190:

     That the Laws of other Nations ſeem’d to him very defective and incongruous, who were very ſollicitous for the Bread of their Dogs and Horſes, and ſent a great way to get the beſt Stallions, and yet kept their Wives under Lock and Key, for fear of other Men; whereas themſelves were craz’d, old, or infirm, and more fit to propagate Diſeaſes than their Species.

   • 1699 April 11, Francis Bugg, Jezebel Withstood, and Her Daughter Anne Docwra, Publickly Reprov’d, for Her Lies and Lightness in Her Book, Stiled, An Apostate Conscience, &c., pages 4–5:

     […] Mr. Criſp and I have Letters of hers ſtill by us, which, it may be, may fill another Half Sheet, but I would not beſtow much upon this craz’d old piece, which is now creeping into the Unity of the Quakers, and no way was to be found, but to make G. Whitehead a Gentleman Quaker, and to tell a few innocent Lies, to uphold their tottering Cauſe.

   • 1735, B[enjamin] Jenks, Prayers, and Offices of Devotion; for Families, and for Particular Persons, upon Most Occasions, 9th edition, London: […] A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, […], pages 397–398:

     O diſpel the Clouds in which now his Soul is wrapped up: That he may come to a good Underſtanding of himſelf, and the Things of his Peace; reduce and heal the craz’d and broken Faculties: Or elſe ſettle and quiet them; pacify and compoſe them.