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单词 dazzling
释义 I. ˈdazzling, vbl. n.
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb dazzle; the condition of being dazzled.
1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 672 To take away all giddinesse and dasling of the head.1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 95 If your eies bee able to beholde it without dazeling.
II. dazzling, ppl. a.|ˈdæzlɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
1. That is, or becomes, dazzled or dazed. (See dazzle v. 1, 2.) Obs.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxviii. 4 His hoarce throt and dazeling eyes.a1592Greene Alphonsus (1861) 227 Do my dazzling eyes Deceive me?1641Milton Reform. ii. (1851) 67 Unlesse God have smitten us..with a dazling giddinesse at noon day.1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 3 This unexpected proposall put his Catholique majesty into such a dazling demur.
2. That dazzles the eyes (esp. with brightness); bright to a degree that dazzles.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 216 b, Drivyng away the dazelyng darkenes of the ugly night.1667Milton P.L. i. 564 A horrid Front Of dreadful length and dazling Arms.1791Cowper Odyss. xxiv. 246 Clad in dazzling brass.1841Borrow Zincali I. ix. i. 155 In hot countries, where the sun and moon are particularly dazzling.
3. fig. That dazzles the mind of the observer; brilliant or splendid to a degree that dazzles.
1749Smollett Regicide i. i, The fair one comes, In all the pride of dazzling charms array'd.1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 113 A neighbourhood so dazzling in its intellectual pretensions.
4. quasi-adv.
1696Tate & Brady Ps. cxxxix. 6 Too dazling bright for mortal Eye!1860Tyndall Glac. i. ii. 13 Its general surface was dazzling white.
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