Middle English Dictionary Entry
dāsen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | dāsen v. Also daise. Forms: p. dāsit; ppl. dāsed, dāsit. |
| Etymology | ON; cp. OI dasa-sk become weary or exhausted, dasað-r exhausted, faint. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To be stunned, bewildered, befuddled, or dumfounded; -- intr. or refl.; (b) dased, stunned, dazed, dizzy; (c) dasand, stupefying.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)383 : He [the king] dased in þat duste..Wepande ful wonderly alle his wrange dedes.
- a1450 Where-of is mad (Dgb 102)90,110 : 'We dase for dronken,' quod þe eyȝe..'we dase and waxe blynd.'
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)32/314 : I dase and I dedir ffor ferd of that tayll.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)7654 : He hurt not þat hynd..Ne the deire of his dynt dasit hym but litle.
b
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)1085 : I stod as stylle as dased quayle For ferly of þat freuch fygure.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)114 : Dasyd or be-dasyd: Vertiginosus.
- a1450 Ch.Feasts (Roy 18.A.10)174 : Oure lady..ȝit lay still doted and dased, As a womman mapped and mased.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3997 : He was dased of þe dint, & half dede him semyd.
- a1500 Wars Alex.(Dub 213)3044 : Seghen downe..semelych knytes, Some dasyd [Ashm: darid] some dede, some depe woundytt.
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)398/288 : The fift day..all maner Herbs..of bloody dew all full shall be, and man and beast all Dased.
c
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1538 : Such a dasande drede dusched to his hert, Þat al falewed his face and fayled þe chere.
2.
(a) To be numb with cold, freeze; (b) dased in charite, cold-hearted, unfeeling; (c) of eyes: to grow dim (= daswen v.).
Associated quotations
a
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)33a : To Dase [vr. dayse], vbi to be calde.
- c1500 King & H.(Ashm 61:Hazlitt)418 : Hopys thou, I wold for a mase Stond in the myre there, and dase Nye hand halve a dey?
b
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)6647 : For-þi þat þai..ay was dased in charite, Þarfor it es right þat þai be In þat strang calde ever-mare lastand.
c
- c1440 Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Eg 2726)H.31 : Þy visage is full pale, Thyn yien dasen eke ..and..thy breeth full foule stynketh.