bemuddle

But some modern sources of information have served at first to bemuddle, and then when more carefully sifted, to clear up the story.

The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

Its educational value is far higher than that of the newspaper, which, in spite of its many merits as a diffuser of information, is very apt to do its best to bemuddle and sophisticate plain facts.

Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins John Fiske 1871

Lucidity of mind, like the rays of the sun, can have no effect except by the continuity of a direct line; it can divine only on condition of not breaking that line; the curvettings of chance bemuddle it.

The Celibates Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Lucidity of mind, like the rays of the sun, can have no effect except by the continuity of a direct line; it can divine only on condition of not breaking that line; the curvettings of chance bemuddle it.

The Two Brothers Honor�� de Balzac 1824