ppl. a. [f. BAFFLE v. + -ED.]

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  † 1.  Disgraced, dishonored. Obs.

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1671.  Milton, Samson, 1237. Go, baffled coward.

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1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, III. 202. Every worthy knight would hold you a baffled, forsworn caitiff.

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  2.  Confounded, discomfited, checked or foiled.

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a. 1659.  Cleveland, Gen. Poems (1677), 14. Till baffled Poetry hangs down the head.

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1693.  Apol. Clergy Scot., 14. This baffled and hypocritical Sham.

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1732.  Lediard, Sethos, II. x. 440. To baffled reason love disdains to yield.

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1860.  Ellicott, Life our Lord, iii. 114. The baffled Tempter departs.

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