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madden, v.|ˈmæd(ə)n|
[f. mad a. + -en5.]
1. intr. To become mad.
1735Pope Prol. Sat. 6 They rave, recite, and madden round the land. 1796M. Robinson Angelina I. 8 My mind would madden at the retrospect of her injuries. 1802Noble Wanderers II. 85, I saw her strength wasting..and maddened at the view! 1811W. R. Spencer Poems 19 My fierce steed maddens to be gone. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. ix. vii. (1864) V. 369 Whole populations maddening to avenge the cause of the injured Son of God. 1858H. Law Christ is All, Numbers 79 Malignant passions maddened in opposing breasts.
2. trans. To make mad; to drive out of one's mind; to excite to frenzy or uncontrollable anger; (esp. as the ppl. adj.: see below) to irritate, annoy, vex.
1822Good Study Med. IV. 167 Opium maddens the head. 1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. v. 105 It was enough to madden the most gentle. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 267 Fierce spirits, unrestrained by principle, maddened by fanaticism. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 119 The raging passion which maddens a crowd of Eastern fanatics.
Hence ˈmaddened ppl. a., ˈmaddening ppl. a. and vbl. n. Also ˈmaddeningly adv., in a maddening manner.
a1743Savage To J. Powell 35 Calm, on the beach while maddening billows rave, He gains Philosophy from every wave. 1775Ash Suppl., Maddening, the act of making mad. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. III. 79 The shrieks..of its maddened mother..did not arouse the sleeping nurse. 1822Good Study Med. IV. 624 The burning and maddening pain..can rarely be alleviated but by opium. a1861Mrs. Browning From Nonnus Poems 1890 V. 85 She named her hero, and raged maddeningly Against the brine of waters. 1863Woolner My Beautiful Lady Introd. 3 The wind Heaving the ocean into maddened arms That clutch and dash huge vessels on the rocks. 1891T. Hardy Tess (1900) 117/2 There never was such a maddening mouth since Eve's! 1896A. Beardsley Let. c 25 Oct. (1971) 188 Dent must be simply maddening. 1925N. Coward Vortex 11. 55 ‘Have you only one set, Florence?’.. ‘Yes, isn't it maddening? Clara promised to bring hers down but forgot.’ 1944― Middle East Diary 36 So many of my Naval friends are here and it's maddening that I shall have no time to go and visit them. 1947A. Huxley Let. 19 Jan. (1969) 565 There will still be revisions to do on the screen play..maddening work, resembling jig saw puzzles rather than literature. |