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Befog   Listen
verb
Befog  v. t.  (past & past part. befogged; pres. part. befogging)  
1.
To involve in a fog; mostly as a participle or part. adj.
2.
Hence: To confuse; to mystify.





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"Befog" Quotes from Famous Books



... America. One review, the organ of the most widespread of American religious sects, declared that Darwin was "attempting to befog and to pettifog the whole question"; another denounced Darwin's views as "infidelity"; another, representing the American branch of the Anglican Church, poured contempt over Darwin as "sophistical and illogical," and then plunged into an exceedingly dangerous line ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... disagreeableness attach to the work. Carefully considered, the workingman who cleans out a sewer and thereby protects people from miasmas, is a very useful member of society; whereas a professor who teaches falsified history in the interest of the ruling classes, or a theologian who seeks to befog the mind with supernatural and transcendental doctrines are ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel


Words linked to "Befog" :   overshadow, hide, becloud, fog, obscure


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