bemuse,v.|bɪˈmjuːz|[f.be- 2 + muse v.:cf.amuse.]trans.To make utterly confused or muddled, as with intoxicating liquor; to put into a stupid stare, to stupefy. Hence beˈmused, beˈmusing ppl.a.1735PopeProl.Sat.15A parson much be-mus'd in beer.1771J. FootPenseroso iv. 196[With]fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies.1847H. MillerFirstImpr.xix. (1861) 265The bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves.1880McCarthyOwn Times xxx. III. 2A Prussian was regarded in England as a dull beer-bemused creature.¶humorously, To devote entirely to the Muses.1705PopeLet.H. CromwellWks.1735 I. 15When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd.