Mazeful

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(obsolete) Causing amazement; wonderful..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Causing amazement; wonderful.
2. Mazy.
3. A quantity that fills or forms a maze.

Example Sentences

A precious memory is the mazeful notes of Dr. Brodsky's interpretation of the romantic cadenza; […]

He could not quite draw from the New York Philharmonic the mazeful shadelike world into which Schubert recedes at times in this wonderful masterpiece, where risks are taken so hazardous that only genius as innocent as Schubert's could […]

The old enchanter who laid down his head In woman's mazeful lap was not betrayed By love or doting, though he gave a maid His rod and book and lies now like the dead.

In both a mazefull ſolitarineſſe: / In night of ſprites the gaſtly powers to ſtur, / In thee or ſprites or ſprited gaſtlineſſe: […]

It was a mazeful wonder; / Thrice three times it was enwalled / With an emerald— / Sealèd so asunder.

Within this 'mazeful wonder', all things are suspended in trance, the birds hang a-dream, the sun swings like a thurible, and, at the garden's heart, in the Land of Luthany, is the Lady of fair weeping, whose sorrowful song the poet would capture in verse.

It is as if Spenser is eroding our usual distinction between the Gorgon's mazeful head and - the beneficent effects of other women's beauty.

He watched with desperate eyes as she moved sensually to shut windows and return to the hidden passages of her mazeful mind.

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• more mazeful
• most mazeful
• mazefuls

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