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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To confuse or puzzle mentally. See Synonyms at puzzle.
  2. v. To make obscure or mysterious.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To perplex purposely; play on the credulity of; bewilder; befog.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive to thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand.
  2. v. To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of; to baffle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. be a mystery or bewildering to
  2. v. make mysterious

Etymologies

  1. From French mystifier, from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mystikos, "secret, mystic") + Latin -ficare. (Wiktionary)
  2. French mystifier : mystère, mystery (from Latin mystērium; see mystery1) + -fier, -fy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • mgoormastic On p.224 of Easton Press's "The Three Musketeers" by Dumas, "mystify" is used in the sense of "to play mind games" or "to mess with someone's mind". Sep 14, 2008

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