And the brother of Jared being a large and mighty man, and a man highly favored of the Lord, Jared, his brother, said unto him: Cry unto the Lord, that he will notconfound us that we may not understand our words.
The fightback when it came was in the[Roger] Federer fashion: unfussy, filled with classy strokes from the back with perfectly timed interventions at the net thatconfounded his opponent. The third set passed in a bit of a blur, the fourth, which led to the second tie-break, was the most dramatic of the match.
Hey who lesse seriously consider the force of words, doe sometimesconfound Law with Counsell, sometimes with Covenant, sometimes with Right. Theyconfound Law with Counsell, who think, that it is the duty of Monarchs not onely to give ear to their Counsellours, but also to obey them, as though it were in vaine to take Counsell, unlesse it were also followed.
1983, Carol M. Anderson, Susan Stewart,Mastering Resistance: A Practical Guide to Family Therapy:
While she had obeyed him, smiling sweetly all the time, she had nursed a growing resentment of what she called his "Latin Americanmacho attitude." Toconfound the problem, his mother, who lived with them on and off, was described by the wife as being as domineering as her son.
Tocombine in a confused fashion; tomingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
There the freſh and ſalt water would meete and beconfounded together,[…]
2018 April 26, Tobias A Rowland, Steven Marwaha, “Epidemiology and risk factors for bipolar disorder”, inTherapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology[2], volume 8, number 9,→DOI, pages251–269:
Medication and lifestyle factors significantlyconfound the association with obesity, for which there are few prospective studies and weak evidence for a directly causal relationship, while the association with traumatic brain injury is potentiallyconfounded by ‘accident proneness’ or physical abuse.
But God hath choſen the fooliſh things of the woꝛld, toconfound the wiſe: and God hath choſen the weake things of the woꝛld, toconfound the things which are mighty:
a.1745, unknown author, “God Save the King”, inThe Gentleman's Magazine[3], volume15, page552:
O Lord our God ariſe, / Scatter his enemies, / And make them fall: /Confound their politics, / Fruſtrate their knaviſh tricks, / On him our hopes we fix, / O ſave us all.
I am now, in order the better toconfound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.
"Number 43 is no better, Doctor," said the head-warder, in a slightly reproachful accent, looking in round the corner of my door. "Confound 43!" I responded from behind the pages of theAustralian Sketcher.
1667,John Milton, “Book I”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines51–53:
To mortal men, he with his horrid crew / Lay vanquiſht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe /Confounded though immortal: But his doom[…]
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Veracity. His Design in Publishing this Work.[…]”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World.[…][Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London:[…]Benj[amin] Motte,[…],→OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms),page345:
Imagine twenty thouſand of them breaking into the midſt of anEuropean Army,confounding the Ranks, overturning the Carriages, battering the Warriors Faces into Mummy, by terrible Yerks from their hinder Hoofs.
2009, C. James Goodwin,Research In Psychology: Methods and Design[4], John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN, page175:
The participants certainly differ in how their practice is distributed (1, 2, or 3 days), but theyalso differ in how much total practice they get (3, 6, or 9 hours). This is a perfect example of aconfound—it is impossible to tell if the results are due to one factor (distribution of practice) or the other (total practice hours); the two factors covary perfectly.
