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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > perplex, nonplus [phrase] (10)
to bring (drive, or put) to one's wit's end1377

at one's wit's end (occasionally ends): utterly perplexed; at a loss what to think or what to do. So to bring (drive,or put) to one's wit's end: to…

to cast (also throw) a mist before a person's eyes?a1475

In phrases with reference to the obscuring of (physical or mental) vision; esp. in to cast (also throw) a mist before a person's eyes (now rare)…

to set (also run) on ground1600

on ground = aground, adv. to set (also run) on ground: figurative to puzzle, nonplus (a person). Cf. sense 9b.

to make butter and cheese of1642

to make butter and cheese of: (perhaps) to thwart, to make difficulties for (a person). Obsolete. rare.

to put to the gaze1646

Phrases. at gaze, †at aor the gaze; said of a deer (now chiefly Heraldry: see quot. 1828 –40), also of persons: in the attitude of gazing, esp. in…

philogrobolized in one's brains1653

philogrobolized in one's brains: addled, stupefied. Cf. metagrobolize, v. 1.

to strike all of (on) a heap1711

Phrases. all of (†on) a heap: all in a mass falling or fallen; so †all on (upon) heaps; to strike all of (†on) a heap (colloquial): to paralyze…

to blow, cast, throw stour in one's eyes1823

Phrases. (Scottish) like stour: very swiftly or vigorously. to blow, cast, throw stour in one's eyes: figurative (cf. dust, n.1 4). to kick up, make

knot1860

figurative. Something intricate, involved, or difficult to trace out or explain; a tangle or difficulty; a knotty point or problem. Gordian knot: see…

to give (one) furiously to think1910

to give to reflect, to give to think: to furnish material for reflexion or thought. (A Gallicism.) Esp. in to give (one) furiously to think, to…

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