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noun

Maze n.

A wild fancy; a confused notion. (Obs.)

Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth. "Quaint mazes on the wanton green." "Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook." "The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error."

A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment; as, a maze of environemntal regulations.

Synonyms: Labyrinth; intricacy. See Labyrinth.

verb

Maze v. t. (past & past part. mazed; pres. part. mazing) To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.

Maze v. i. To be bewildered. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Maze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Maze" Quotes from Famous Books

... Susan his existence would have been an unmitigated evil; the iron, his petty, material triumphs, would rust, but the other go on and on. His thoughts became a maze of pity for Eunice, infinite regret of the past, a bitter energy of ...

— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer

... painted vessels shine; The marble cisterns foam with wine. A hundred dancing girls are there With zoneless waists and streaming hair; And countless eyes with ardour gaze, And countless hands the measure beat, As mix and part in amorous maze Those floating arms and bounding feet. But none of all the race of Cain, Save those whom he hath deigned to grace With yellow robe and sapphire chain, May pass beyond that outer space. For now within the painted hall ...

— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 3. (of 4) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... having entirely escaped him that he had called to see Elizabeth. Lucetta at the window watched him threading the maze of farmers and farmers' men. She could see by his gait that he was conscious of her eyes, and her heart went out to him for his modesty—pleaded with her sense of his unfitness that he might be allowed to come again. He ...

— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy

... exalted beings, who are superior to the passions that now throb in my heart, forgive me, if I love thee also for thy fault. Yet, let the danger to which it betrayed thee, teach us still to walk in the strait path, and commit the keeping of our peace to the Almighty; for he that wanders in the maze of falsehood, shall pass by the good that he would meet, and shall meet the evil that he would shun. I also was tempted; but I was strengthened to resist: if I had used the power, which I derived from the arts that have been practised against me, to return evil for evil; ...

— Almoran and Hamet • John Hawkesworth

... cost, the truth of his remark that the house was surrounded by crooked paths. The grounds were a veritable maze. He had purposely slipped away alone, and in five minutes was involved in a network of twisting, thickly-hedged paths, all of which seemed only to lead still ...

— The Crooked House • Brandon Fleming

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