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Confused; perplexed.

Extremely; odiously; detestably. [Colloq.] "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.

The state of being confounded.

Not confounded. Bp. Warburton.

Abashed; confounded; discomfited. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder. Bp. Hall.

"museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.

awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. R. Hall. Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. Shipley.

Utterly confounded or discomfited. Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. Milton.

Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott.

only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.

Mixed; confounded. [Obs.] Baret.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

g the fashionable part of mankind." Addison. -- Out of countenance, not bold or assured; confounded; abashed. "Their best friends were out of countenance, because they found that the imputations . . . were well grounded." Clarendon. -- To keep the countenance, to preserve a composed or natural look, undisturbed by pa…

r the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character. Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. Milton.

So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined; clear; as, we have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect. Relation more particular and distinct. Milton.

r qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum. We are enabled to distinguish good from evil, as well as truth from falsehood. Watts. Nor more can you distinguish of a man, Than of his outward show. Shak.

A mass ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

er of Njörd, aud goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also Frea, Fraying, and Ereyja.]

es or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor. Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness. H. Spencer.