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confondre (c.1136-37)
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confondre (c.1136-37)

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confonder,  confoundre,  confoundrer,  confunder,  confundre;  cumfundre,  cunfundre  
  FEW:  confundere 2/ii,1046a Gdf:  confondre 2,235b GdfC:  confondre 9,153b TL: confondre 2,682 DEAF:  confondre  DMF:  confondre  TLF:  confondre  OED:  confound v.  MED:  confounden v.  DMLBS:  confundere 437c

v.trans.

1to overthrow, defeat: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  li miens Deus, en tei sui afiez: ne seie cundud (var. (B: s.xii4/4) cunfundud)  Camb Ps 37.XXIV.1
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Tel orgoil as enpris […] Dont tu es confonduz  Rom Chev ANTS 962
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  Par dulce pais ad cumfunduz Tuz nos enemis e vencuz  S Edw barking 1737
♦to refute: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Pur cumpruver le e cumfundre  S Clem ANTS 4584
( s.xiiim; MS: c.1300 )  il respondi, E cele folour confoundi, E prova par vive reson Ke […]  Dial Jul 1789
♦to banish, consign (to hell, etc.): 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Rayner et sa mesné sunt saunz repairer Confoundrés al diable  LANGTOFT wright i 492
2to destroy: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Puis cururent en B., Cele cuntree unt cunfundue, Granz damages e granz dolurs Firent iloc  GAIMAR1 5164
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Li felon ki lor preome el mond Confundent, confundez serrunt  Salemon 7780
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  [A] cunfundre felun: Pernez la racine de wymauve […]  Med Recs 218.119
♦(as curse) to destroy, confound: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Confond les, Sire, si te plet; destruy lur manantie  Rom Chev ANTS 6511
( c.1185 )  un baron, qui Deus cunfunde […]  Proth ANTS 71
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  Le fiz Marie la confunde!  Amis 904 (var. C22)
( s.xiiiin; MS: c.1300 )  Jhesu la confounde, ke tot le mound fit!  Boeve 36
♦ship.to wreck, sink: 
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  toutz les niefs furount esparpilez et en poynt d’estre confunduz  Anon Chr1 117.10
3to disturb, upset: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  por eschivre la ren del mund Ke plus le cors de home cunfund: Ceo est tristur  Pet Plet ANTS 26
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  (too much wine) enflaume la colre et confond la fey  Secr anon 12.96
4to confuse, mix up: 
( MS: 1155-60 )  Ne mie confundanz (Latin: confundentes) les persones (=of the Trinity)  Camb Ps 288.4
♦to mislead, lead astray: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Nus desusums totes ces creatures, e il les crie; nus les confundums, e il les guie  Mirour Egl 20.61

v.absol.

to ruin: 
( c.1185 )  Amur cunfunt, amur socurt  Proth ANTS 3817

p.p. as a.

emotiondowncast, dejected: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  palles e teint e confundu  Gui War 528

See also:

confus 
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