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empuzzle en · VERB

Etymology

From em- + puzzle.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To puzzle.
   • 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. 1822, William Tennant, The Thane of Fife, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Canto II, Stanza 64, p. 83:
   • 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. 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 1:

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