mazeful

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From maze +‎ -ful.

Adjective edit

mazeful (comparative more mazeful, superlative most mazeful)

(obsolete) Causing amazement; wonderful.
- 1929, The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular, page 174:
  A precious memory is the mazeful notes of Dr. Brodsky's interpretation of the romantic cadenza; […]
- 1951, The Manchester Guardian Weekly, volume 65, page 30:
  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 […]
- 1964, Milton Thomas Wilson, Poetry of Midcentury, 1940–1960, page 204:
  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.
Mazy.
- c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in Mary Sidney, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 96, page 564:
  In both a mazefull ſolitarineſſe: / In night of ſprites the gaſtly powers to ſtur, / In thee or ſprites or ſprited gaſtlineſſe: […]
- 1897, Francis Thompson, “[Sight and Insight.] The Mistress of Vision.”, in New Poems, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC, stanza II, page 3:
  It was a mazeful wonder; / Thrice three times it was enwalled / With an emerald— / Sealèd so asunder.
- 1959, John Cowie Reid, Francis Thompson: Man and Poet, page 141:
  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.
- 1992, Dorothy Anne Stephens, Into Others Arms: Spenser’s Feminine Wanderings, page 59:
  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.
- 2002, Jeffrey K. Hill, The Last Courtesan, page 49:
  He watched with desperate eyes as she moved sensually to shut windows and return to the hidden passages of her mazeful mind.
- 2010, Clair V. Quinnine Jr., The Ghetto Oscar:
  The door bell rang and Martha went to answer the door, stepping through the mazeful crowd.

Etymology 2 edit

maze +‎ -ful

Noun edit

mazeful (plural mazefuls)

A quantity that fills or forms a maze.
- 1982, Len Albin, Secrets of the video game super stars, page 36:
  There will be another four waiting to be gobbled there, as well as a whole new mazeful of cheese bits.
- 2011, Durlabh Singh, In the Days of Love, page 98:
  When you were young and fell in love for the first time with a stranger, the emotional involvement and novelty being so strong that you did not have a chance to judge it with a cool head and normally get entangled in a mazeful of false sentiments.