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n. The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god. S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A follower of Confucius; a Confucian. S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC), the founder of Confucianism.
Syn. -- Kung futzu, Kung futze, Kung tzu, K'ung fu-tze. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ F. See Confuse, a. ] Confused, disturbed. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being confused. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being confused. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. confus, L. confusus, p. p. of confundere. See Confound. ] Mixed; confounded. [ Obs. ] Baret. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Confused p. pr. & vb. n. Confusing. ] 1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision. [ 1913 Webster ]

A universal hubbub wild
Of stunning sounds and voices all confused. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse
A life that leads melodious days. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Confused and sadly she at length replied. Pope.

Syn. -- To abash; disorder; disarrange; disconcert; confound; obscure; distract. See Abash. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as confounded; as, bewildered and confused.
Syn. -- at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, mazed, mixed-up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. lacking orderly continuity.
Syn. -- disconnected, disjointed, disordered, disorganized, desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered, unconnected. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. thrown into disorder; as, His workbench held a confused assortment of spare engine parts..
Syn. -- disordered, in disarray, upset. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. having lost one's bearings physically or mentally.
Syn. -- disoriented, lost. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. not marked by fine distinctions. discriminate
Syn. -- indiscriminate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

6. causing bafflement and confusion.
Syn. -- bewildering, confusing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a confused manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of confusion. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Confusedly; obscurely. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. causing mental confusion and perplexity.
Syn. -- perplexing, stupefying. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. causing bafflement and confusion; as, he sent confusing signals to Iraq.
Syn. -- bewildering, confused. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. confusion, L. confusio. ] 1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. [ 1913 Webster ]

The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moody beggars starving for a time
Of pellmell havoc and confusion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame. [ 1913 Webster ]

Confusion dwelt in every face
And fear in every heart. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Overthrow; defeat; ruin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king,
Confusion on thy banners wait. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who confuses; a confounder. [ Obs. ] Chapmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Confusion of goods (Law), the intermixture of the goods of two or more persons, so that their respective portions can no longer be distinguished. Blackstone. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be confuted. [ 1913 Webster ]

A conceit . . . confutable by daily experience. Sir T.Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. confutans, p. pr. of confutare. ] One who undertakes to confute. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. confutatio: cf. F. confutation. ] The act or process of confuting; refutation. “For the edification of some and the confutation of others.” Bp. Horne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adapted or designed to confute. Bp. Warburton [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Confuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Confuting. ] [ L. confutare to chek (a boiling liquid), to repress, confute; con- + a root seen in futis a water vessel), prob. akin to fundere to pour: cf. F. confuter. See Fuse to melt. ] To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Satan stood . . . confuted and convinced
Of his weak arguing fallacious drift. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant some true principle that contradicts his error. Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

I confute a good profession with a bad conversation. Fuller.

Syn. -- To disprove; overthrow; sed aside; refute; oppugn. -- To Confute, Refute. Refute is literally to and decisive evidence; as, to refute a calumny, charge, etc. Confute is literally to check boiling, as when cold water is poured into hot, thus serving to allay, bring down, or neutralize completely. Hence, as applied to arguments (and the word is never applied, like refute, to charges), it denotes, to overwhelm by evidence which puts an end to the case and leaves an opponent nothing to say; to silence; as, “the atheist is confuted by the whole structure of things around him.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Confutation. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who confutes or disproves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of demonstrating that something is false; confutation.
Syn. -- falsification, falsifying, disproving, refuting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Not confused; distinct. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. Freedom from confusion; distinctness. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not confutable. -- In`con*fut"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]