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confusedly, adv.|kənˈfjuːzɪdlɪ, -ˈfjuːzdlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a confused manner.
1. With confusion of mind or feelings; in a disconcerted manner; with discomfiture, perplexity, or bewilderment.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) ii. v. 93 Without the whiche, man shall be confusedly put out and departed from the companye of..those yt be chosen. 1632Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 89 Yet remain'd shee..confusedly disquieted. 1857W. Collins Dead Secret (1861) 112 Rosamond, looking confusedly and self-distrustfully from Mr. Orridge to her husband.
2. In confusion, in disorder; in a disorderly mass, crowd, etc.
1566J. Partridge Plasidas 39 At length he came where bucks great store did stand confusedly. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxvi. 7 Although many thinges bee mingled confusedly in the woorld. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis v. xviii. 395 As is usuall in great and sudden chances, they all talked confusedly, all without order, all together. 1713Angestein in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 224 Composed of many ruinous angular Columns lying confusedly. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. I. i. iii. 56 A mass composed of corals, shells..confusedly blended with earth, sand and gravel.
†b. Without order or rule, irregularly, promiscuously, here and there, now and then. Obs.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 47 The use hereof appereth full ofte in al partes of our life, and confusedly is used emong al other matters. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. i. 118 Sharpe Stakes pluckt out of Hedges They pitched in the ground confusedly, To keepe the Horsemen off. 1620Venner Via Recta (1650) 215 [Some] do confusedly use..beside the juyce of Tansie, the juyce of other hearbs. 1631Gouge God's Arrows ii. §25. 168 Others.. confusedly feeding on certaine venomous herbes.
†3. In a blended manner, with fusion of component parts. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 141 They use to compounde these prepositions and les confusedly togyder, and tourne a les into avx, de les into des.
4. With confusion of perception, thought, or expression, and consequent obscurity or indistinctness.
a1533Frith Disput. Purgatory 164 M. More taketh this word death so confusedly, that no man can tell what he meaneth. 1609Bible (Douay) Gen. xi. Comm., He that speaketh so confusedly..is said to bable. 1670Barrow in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 75 Written so ill, and so confusedly, that I fear you will hardly be able to make anything of them. 1740J. Clarke Educ. Youth (ed. 3) 126 They..contract a Habit of..talking loosely and confusedly. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xvii. 293 The short-sighted see distant objects confusedly. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt II. xxix. 212 Which expressed rather confusedly the mingled character of the dislike he excited. |