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Definition of Giddied
1. giddy [v] - See also: giddy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Giddied
Literary usage of Giddied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"III., i. 4. The wretch shall feel The ///.if/« motion of the whirling mill.
Pope, R. of the L., 11. 134. giddy (gid'i), r. ; prêt, and pp. giddied, ..."
2. The Bookman (1903)
"... quote a few characteristic passages : "I have seen a People crazed with new-got
riches, a drunk-headed People, a People giddied with great possessions. ..."
3. The Philosophy of History: In a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Vienna by Friedrich von Schlegel (1846)
"... giddied by the intoxicating cup of ambition, drunk with the blood of nations,
is a mighty historical emblem, applicable to every age from the earliest ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1865)
"“Poor Master Moritz! Is he much hurt? Is Ebbo bringing him up hither?” “No,
mother, he is but giddied and stunned, and now must you send down store of ..."
5. The Philosophy of History: In a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Vienna by Friedrich von Schlegel (1846)
"... and in Holy Writ itself, the Babylon giddied by the intoxicating cup of
ambition, drunk with the blood of nations, is a mighty historical emblem, ..."
6. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... by the context should mean hunted, unless we suppose it put for giddied, made
giddy by terror : In hast they ..."
7. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... by the context should mean hunted, unless we suppose it put for giddied, made
giddy by terror : The graves stood ..."
8. The Philosophy of History: In a Course of Lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel (1841)
"... and in Holy Writ itself, the Babylon, giddied by the intoxicating cup of
ambition, drunk with the blood of nations, is a mighty historical emblem, ..."
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