Mystification

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:21:47

Mys`ti*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. mystification.]

The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.

The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace. De Quincey.

 

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