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Definition of Mizmaze
1. n. A maze or labyrinth.
Definition of Mizmaze
1. Noun. (obsolete) A maze or labyrinth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mizmaze
1. a labyrinth [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mizmaze
Literary usage of Mizmaze
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"mizmaze means confused." [" MAZED " is used about Looe. ... He came upon me so
quick, and axed me so suddent, I was all of a mizmaze.'" Harland—" MAZE. ..."
2. Report and Transactions (1875)
"mizmaze means confused." Daniel—" Like a gate flop o' lightning gon ... He came
upon me so quick, and axed me so suddent, I was all of a mizmaze. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"But how to pleasure such worthy flesh and blood, and not the direct way of nature,
is such a mizmaze to manhood."—Howard, Man of Newmarket. MOAN, sb. ..."
4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"mizmaze, ». Confusion ; a puzzle. But how to pleasure such worthy flesh and blood,
and not the direct way of nature, is such a mizmaze to manhood. ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Uniese he had repeated that verbal mizmaze of the convention. The American, VIII.
308. 2. Confusion; bewilderment. ..."
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