confusticate
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /kənˈfʌstəkeɪt/
Verb

confusticate (confusticates, present participle confusticating; past and past participle confusticated)

  1. (transitive, informal, chiefly, US) To confuse, confound or perplex.
    • I had to come and go,
      Receive with pomp and show
      From nations, deputations,
      Which confusticate one so !
    • 1973, Rules of Evidence [unintelligible], Hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, [unintelligible] Special Subcommittee on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 12
      it is bound to make of medical malpractice trials veritable wars of even more lengthy attrition; with each side employing such a published congeries of conflicting medical views as would thoroughly confusticate any jury...
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