In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
MYSTIFIED
metagrobolized, metagrobolised, metagrabolized, metagrabolised, mystified
(adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up; “all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized”- Wall Street Journal
MYSTIFY
mystify
(verb) make mysterious; “mystify the story”
perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to; “This beats me!”; “Got me--I don’t know the answer!”; “a vexing problem”; “This question really stuck me”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
mystified
simple past tense and past participle of mystify
Adjective
mystified
puzzled or confused
state of enchantment as concerns person or event
Source: Wiktionary
MYSTIFY
Mys"ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mystified; p. pr. & vb. n. Mystifying.] Etym: [F. mystifier, fr. Gr. -ficare (in comp.) to make. See 1st Mystery, and -fy.]
1. To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.
2. To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent. He took undue advantage of his credulity and mystified him exceedingly. Ld. Campbell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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