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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

... paid no attention to them whatever, much to Hester's relief, for she had made sure of being detected. At last they reached the city gate, which was still open, as the sun had not yet set. Passing through unchallenged, Dinah at once dived into a maze of narrow streets, and, for the first time since ...

— The Middy and the Moors - An Algerine Story • R.M. Ballantyne

... Masonry is essentially an honest institution. Whereas in the Grand Orient the initiate is led through a maze of ceremonies towards a goal unknown to him which he may discover too late to be other than he supposed, the British initiate, although admitted by gradual stages to the mysteries of the Craft, knows nevertheless from the beginning the ...

— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

... ago, in its uncouth majesty. No road, save the merest goat-path, led down its concave wilderness, in which loose furze-bushes and untrimmed brambles wantoned into the likeness of trees, each draped in audacious tissue of wild clematis. Through this fantastic maze the traveller wound his way, led by little other clue than by the instinct of descent. For me, as a child, it meant the labour of a long, an endless morning, to descend to the snow-white pebbles, to sport at the edge of the cold, sharp sea, and then to climb up home again, slipping in the ...

— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse

... dominate which inspires him to avoid truths over which he has no sway and to invent myths. Gods and virtues over which he may set himself up as creator and policeman. It is this which causes him to cloud the simplicities of nature in a maze of interpretations. It is by his interpretations that he achieves the illusion of importance. Ignored by the planets, he invents the myth of mathematics and reduces the universe to a succession of fractions and Greek letters ...

— Fantazius Mallare - A Mysterious Oath • Ben Hecht

... out in a maze, between walls with straight faces of the hard, dry earth, testifying to the beneficence of summer weather in constructing fastnesses from artillery fire, until we were in the firing- trench, where I was at home among the officers ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

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