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/mˈɪstəfˌaɪɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Mystify v. t. (past & past part. mystified; pres. part. mystifying)

To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of; to baffle; as, to mystify an opponent. "He took undue advantage of his credulity and mystified him exceedingly."

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Etymology of 'Mystifying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... replied: "The leaf which you yourself have brought me has told me everything. Moreover, you reached my friend's house at such an hour and you left it at such another." In this way our people amuse themselves by mystifying these poor islanders, who think they are gods, with power to make the very leaves reveal what they believe to be secret. Thus the news spread through the island that the leaves speak in response to a sign ...

— De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) - The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera • Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt

... was sitting in the same place in which I had seen her last, in the same position, with the same mystifying bandage over her eyes. her welcome was to turn her almost invisible face to me and show me that while she sat silent she saw me clearly. I made no motion to shake hands with her; I felt too well on this occasion that that was out of place forever. ...

— The Aspern Papers • Henry James

... excitement in their faces and in their actions. White uniformed policemen were flocking into the corridors; soldiers, coatless and hatless, fresh from their beds, came dashing upon the scene. There were excited cries, angry shouts and, snore mystifying than ...

— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... fortune in meeting with a man of the highest distinction, but I may perhaps have the satisfaction of helping him on the road to it. Five years hence let us meet in Paris and see! I believe we shall succeed in mystifying you. You will tell me then that I was quite mistaken, and that M. de l'Estorade is a ...

— Letters of Two Brides • Honore de Balzac

... them, above all things, consent to be intelligible to the plainest capacity; for though speech, according to the averment of a wily Frenchman, was given to us to conceal our thoughts, no one has yet ventured to extend the same mystifying definition to the art ...

— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson

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