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Bemuse. World English Historical Dictionary

Bemuse. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bemuse v. [f. BE- 2 + MUSE v.: cf. amuse.] trans. To make utterly confused or muddled, as with intoxicating liquor; to put into a stupid stare, to stupefy. Hence Bemused, Bemusing ppl. a.

1 1735.  Pope, Prol. Sat., 15. A parson much be-mus’d in beer.

2 1771.  J. Foot, Penseroso, IV. 196. [With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies.

3 1847.  H. Miller, First Impr., xix. (1861), 265. The bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves.

4 1880.  McCarthy, Own Times, xxx. III. 2. A Prussian was regarded in England as a dull beer-bemused creature.

5   ¶ humorously, To devote entirely to the Muses.

6 1705.  Pope, Let. H. Cromwell, Wks. 1735, I. 15. When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus’d.

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