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confusion(dictionary)
confusion(dictionary)
CONFUSION(law)
Confusion - Golf(gambling)
Nonpurchaser Confusion 1.13(law)
Actual Confusion(law)
confusion colours(medicine)
Reverse Confusion 1.14, 7.26(law)
Confusion (Confusingly Similar)(law)

confusion (iou)



confusion noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin confusio(n-): see CON-, FUSION.]
Discomfiture, ruin. arch. ME.
Milton With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. P. O'Brian 'Confusion to Boney,' they said, and drank their glasses dry.
Mental discomfiture, putting to shame; embarrassment, perplexity. ME.
Bible (Coverdale): Psalms 30:1 In the, O Lorde, is my trust: let me neuer be put to confucion. G. Greene The woman..rose in confusion at the sight of the strangers coming in.
Mixture in which the distinction of the elements is lost. Now rare or obsolete. ME.
Book of Common Prayer One altogether, not by confusion of substaunce: but by vnitie of person.
The action of throwing into disorder. LME.
Bacon The first great judgement of God upon the ambition of man was the confusion of tongues.
A disordered condition; disorder. LME.
S. Beckett In this immense confusion one thing alone is clear.
b. Tumult; civil commotion. M16.
Failure to distinguish. LME.
E. Clodd That confusion between names and things which marks all primitive thinking.
The quality of being confused, indistinct or obscure. E18.
circle of confusion, circle of least confusion: see CIRCLE noun 1.
Alban Butler Confusion..in writing is indeed without excuse.
confusional adjective characterized by (mental) confusion L19.