Confusion

from the book Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin and Illustrated by Eric Beddows

• 1. Discomfiture, overthrow, ruin, destruction, perdition.

b. A cause of overthrow or ruin. (Cf. ruin.)

c. as an imprecation or exclamation. (Cf. CONFOUND 2.)

• 2. Mental discomfiture, putting to shame.

b. Overthrow or discomfiture in argument; confutation. Obs.

• 3. Mental perturbation or agitation such as prevents the full command of the faculties; embarrassment, perplexity, fluttered condition.
• 4. The action of confounding, confusing, or throwing into disorder: spec. in reference to the ‘confusion of tongues’ at the tower of Babel.
• 5. A confused or disordered condition; disorder.

b. In reference to ideas, notions, etc.

c. Confused condition of anything.

d. with pl.

e. quasi-concr. A confused assemblage of. (rare.)

• 6. Tumult, excited and disorderly commotion.

b. Civil commotion or disorder.

c. pl. Disorders, commotions.

• 7. Mixture in which the distinction of the elements is lost by fusion, blending, or intimate intermingling.

b. Fusion together. Obs. rare.

• 8. The quality of being confused, indistinct, or obscure: said of objects of sensuous or mental attention.
• 9. The confounding or mistaking of one for another; failure to distinguish. Const. of (things), of one with another, between (things).

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