Hypertext Webster Gateway: "madding"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mad \Mad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Madded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Madding}.]
To make mad or furious; to madden.
Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would
have madded me. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Madding \Mad"ding\, a.
Affected with madness; raging; furious. -- {Mad"ding*ly},
adv. [Archaic]
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. --Gray.
The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged. --Milton.
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