ppl. a. [f. BAFFLE v. + -ED.]
† 1. Disgraced, dishonored. Obs.
1671. Milton, Samson, 1237. Go, baffled coward.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, III. 202. Every worthy knight would hold you a baffled, forsworn caitiff.
2. Confounded, discomfited, checked or foiled.
a. 1659. Cleveland, Gen. Poems (1677), 14. Till baffled Poetry hangs down the head.
1693. Apol. Clergy Scot., 14. This baffled and hypocritical Sham.
1732. Lediard, Sethos, II. x. 440. To baffled reason love disdains to yield.
1860. Ellicott, Life our Lord, iii. 114. The baffled Tempter departs.