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empuzzle (third-person singular simple present empuzzles, present participle empuzzling, simple past and past participle empuzzled)

1. (obsolete) To puzzle. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica‎, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 1:

     It hath empuzzeled the enquiries of others to apprehend […] how without fear or doubt she could discourse with such a creature, or hear a Serpent speak, without suspition of imposture.

   • 1822, William Tennant, The Thane of Fife‎, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Canto II, Stanza 64, p. 83:

     They twist and trip and intervolve it well,
     Flinging their phasms fantastically high,
     Circling her chair with maze inscrutable,
     Not to be follow’d by th’ empuzzled eye.

参照

• “empuzzle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.