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confounded, ppl. a.|kənˈfaʊndɪd|
[f. prec. vb. + -ed1. Its use as an adj., and even as a passive pple. in early times was rare, confuse, confused being used instead.]
1. Discomfited, abashed, put to shame or mental confusion; confused, disordered, etc.: see the verb.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 93 He bi-com so confoundet [v.r. confus, confuse] he couthe not mele. a1375Joseph Arim. 494 Þe gref is oure childre; What wol bi-falle þer-of and [= if] we ben confoundet. 1572Killigrew Let. in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) III. 421 My confounded manner of writing. 1665Pepys Diary 5 Oct., Our confounded business of prisoners, and sick and wounded seamen, wherein he and we are so much put out of order. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 378 Heraclitus was no Clear but a Confounded Philosopher. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iv. (1840) 106 They were confounded in their accounts.
2. Applied by way of execration to any person or thing strongly objected to: see confound 2.
1652H. Bell tr. Luther's Table-t. 324 Such confounded and wicked pranks have the Popes plaid. 1712Addison Spect. No. 511 ⁋1 Those dear confounded Creatures, Women. 1731Swift On his Death, He was a most confounded tory. 1819Byron Juan i. c, Some confounded escapade. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. xlv, There will be no muskets to clean, no drill, and none of your confounded pipe clay. 1837Dickens Pickw. xix, That's his impudence—that's his confounded impudence. 1854F. E. Smedley H. Coverdale's C. lvi, Those confounded newspapers are sure to get hold of the affair.
b. as adv. = confoundedly. (Cf. damned.)
1709De Foe Life Rozelli (1713) I. 45, I was confounded mad to see a Rival enjoy [it]. 1729Swift Jrnl. Mod. Lady, Was it not confounded hard? a1806Kirke White Rem. (1811) II. 240, I am a confounded proud fellow at bottom. |