Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
BAFFLED
baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea
(adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; “obviously bemused by his questions”; “bewildered and confused”; “a cloudy and confounded philosopher”; “just a mixed-up kid”; “she felt lost on the first day of school”
baffled
(noun) people who are frustrated and perplexed; “the children’s faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
baffled
simple past tense and past participle of baffle
Adjective
baffled (comparative more baffled, superlative most baffled)
thoroughly confused, puzzled
(not comparable) having baffles
Source: Wiktionary
BAFFLE
Baf"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Baffled (p. pr. & vb. n. Baffling (.] Etym: [Cf. Lowland Scotch bauchle to treat contemptuously, bauch tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel. bagr uneasy, poor, or bagr, n., struggle, bægja to push, treat harshly, OF. beffler, beffer, to mock, deceive, dial. G. bäppe mouth, beffen to bark, chide.]
1. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. [Obs.] He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. Spenser.
2. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. Cowper.
3. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. "A baffled purpose." De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. Locke. Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another.
Syn.
– To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat.
Baf"fle, v. i.
1. To practice deceit. [Obs.] Barrow.
2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. [R.]
Baf"fle, n.
Definition: A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. [R.] "A baffle to philosophy." South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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