v. Also 7 bedeaze (Sc.). [f. BE- 2 + DAZE.] Emphatic form of DAZE. Hence Bedazed ppl. a. Dazed, stupefied; besotted.
a. 1605. Montgomerie, Poems (1821), 173. Quhais frostie head … Bedeazit evry vane.
1870. Daily News, 10 June, 5/3. The baby-acrobat may fail, bedazed, and stunned, though not quite senseless.
1882. E. Plumptre, Eccles. (Camb. Bible for Sch.), 167. The besotted and bedazed spiritual pride which St. Paul paints by the participle ‘puffed up.’
