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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
baffleable en · ADJ
Meanings
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Able to be baffled.
The squirrel lives in its meaning for Merdice: "She thinks you are a mountain and a star, un-baffleable; / with sentient twitch and scurry."
2021 March 17, R Miller, Black American Literature and Humanism, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:What by attendancies to those affairs, which the necessaries and conveniencies of Living do exact from him ; and what by adhering to those Studies, to which in his Youth he had accustom'd his mind, perhaps he may live to see himself baffleable by every fresh Adventurer , so as to bear the shame of being out-done in common Talk by any such an one, as is better acquainted with the newer methods, and later notions of his own Sciences. And this accounts for the first Reason.
1688, William Smith, A Future World, in which mankind shall survive their mortal durations, demonstrated by Rational Evidence from Natural and Moral Arguments against the Atheist's Pretentions, Print. by T.M. for R. Clavel, →ISBN, page 131:He goes behind the baffleable degree of distortion, and the practicable rate is not necessarily the ideal rate.
1955, The Glass Industry, volumes 36-37, Magazines For Industry, page 322:
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unbaffleable