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Confused, disturbed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Capability of being confused.

Capable of being confused.

e distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

In a confused manner.

A state of confusion. Norris.

Confusedly; obscurely. [Obs.]

One who confuses; a confounder. [Obs.] Chapmen.

Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.

Not confused; distinct. [Obs.]

Freedom from confusion; distinctness. [Obs.] Bacon.

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.

g lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.

In amazement; with confusion or astonishment. Shak.

Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

tate of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. Johnson. Enough to make us ashamed of our species. Macaulay. An ashamed pers…

A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms.