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Definition of Bemusing
1. bemuse [v] - See also: bemuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bemusing
Literary usage of Bemusing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The French Revolution by Louis Madelin (1916)
"For centuries Plutarch with his sham Greeks and sham Romans had been bemusing
us, and all these men—philosophers and their disciples— were so intoxicated ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1867)
"... in obscure taverns and lager-beer saloons, bemusing themselves with rum and
whisky, and amusing themselves with inventing secret oaths and passwords, ..."
3. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1865)
"... it may certainly be predicated of Warton that he Hud no objection to a pot of
beer, and would not seldom prefer quietly " bemusing " himself therein ovc ..."
4. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1917)
"Not bemusing ourselves with the irrelevant consideration that it is in itself
desirable, but recognizing its dangers and to that extent having the greater ..."
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