madding

See also: Madding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmædɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ædɪŋ

Adjective

madding

1. (archaic) Affected with madness; raging; furious.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     The madding wheels of brazen chariots raged.

   • 1670, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, 9th edition, page 26:

     Check thy self, thou Air-monger; that with a madding thought, thus chasest fleeting shadows.

   • 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC:

     Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Derived terms

• maddingly

Verb

madding

1. present participle and gerund of mad

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /madenɡ/, [ˈmaðeŋ]

Noun

madding c (singular definite maddingen, plural indefinite maddinger)

1. fishbait

Inflection

Declension of madding

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	madding	maddingen	maddinger	maddingerne
genitive	maddings	maddingens	maddingers	maddingernes

Synonyms

• agn

Further reading

• madding on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da