bemuse

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To confuse or bewilder.

   • [With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies.
   • the bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves
2. 2

   To be amused, especially sardonically.

3. 3

   To devote to the Muses.

   • When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd
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   1. 4

      To make drunk

      To make drunk; to intoxicate.

      • a parson much be-mus'd in beer
      • This old man generally bemused himself in beer, once a fortnight.
      • […] more innocently, and no doubt profitably, than if he had dined at a big-wig's board or bemused himself with smoke and beer among his brethren of the pen.

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