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/mˈɪstəfˌaɪɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Mystify v. t. (past & past part. mystified; pres. part. mystifying)

To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of; to baffle; as, to mystify an opponent. "He took undue advantage of his credulity and mystified him exceedingly."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mystifying" Quotes from Famous Books

... has been styled "The Master of Mysteries," has here woven one of his most mystifying tales. It is like a Chinese puzzle in its ingenuity, and holds the reader breathless from the ...

— The White Lie • William Le Queux

... interestingly mystifying to Ross. Where in the world had she got that red hair and those wonderful Irish eyes? She had not a single feature like her mother. Her tallness, he thought, could be said to have come straight from him. ...

— The Heart of Arethusa • Francis Barton Fox

... moreover the only other hypothesis, perhaps, which can be devised to account for these passages, if it were possible to prove that the interpretation that the documents themselves suggest, must be rejected a priori; viz may not Leonardo have written them with the intention of mystifying those who, after his death, should try to decipher these manuscripts with a view to publishing them? But if, in fact, no objection that will stand the test of criticism can be brought against the simple and direct interpretation of the words as they stand, we ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... had some faith in Preston's and Mrs. Sandford's powers of transforming and mystifying the present very natural appearance of the performers. ]However, she was beginning to be of the opinion that it was good fun ...

— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell

... cab, and drove up-town to my apartments in Riverside. It was eight o'clock by my watch. I leaned back against the cushions, ruminating. There seemed to be something going on that night; the ten of hearts was acquiring a mystifying, not to say sinister, aspect. First it had alarmed the girl in Mouquin's, and now this stranger in the curio-shop. I was confident that the latter had lied in regard to his explanations. The card had startled him, but his reasons were ...

— Hearts and Masks • Harold MacGrath

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