mazeful

mazeful adjective: causing amazement; wonderful.

Adjective

mazeful (comparative more mazeful, superlative most mazeful)

(obsolete) Causing amazement; wonderful.
- A precious memory is the mazeful notes of Dr. Brodsky's interpretation of the romantic cadenza; […]1929, The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular, page 174
- 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 […]1951, The Manchester Guardian Weekly, volume 65, page 30
Mazy.
- In both a mazefull ſolitarineſſe: / In night of ſprites the gaſtly powers to ſtur, / In thee or ſprites or ſprited gaſtlineſſe: […]c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie...
- It was a mazeful wonder; / Thrice three times it was enwalled / With an emerald— / Sealèd so asunder.1897, Francis Thompson, “[Sight and Insight.] The Mistress of Vision.”, in New Poems, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC, stanza II, page 3

mazeful (plural mazefuls)

A quantity that fills or forms a maze.
- There will be another four waiting to be gobbled there, as well as a whole new mazeful of cheese bits.1982, Len Albin, Secrets of the video game super stars, page 36
- 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.2011, Durlabh Singh, In the Days of Love, page 98

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.1964, Milton Thomas Wilson, Poetry of Midcentury, 1940–1960, page 204:
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.1992, Dorothy Anne Stephens, Into Others Arms: Spenser’s Feminine Wanderings, page 59:
He watched with desperate eyes as she moved sensually to shut windows and return to the hidden passages of her mazeful mind.2002, Jeffrey K. Hill, The Last Courtesan, page 49:
The door bell rang and Martha went to answer the door, stepping through the mazeful crowd.2010, Clair V. Quinnine Jr., The Ghetto Oscar:

From maze + -ful.

What does mazeful mean?: Mazeful means causing amazement; wonderful.
How do you use mazeful in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is mazeful?: Mazeful can be an adjective or a noun.

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