confound

O my hope, let not my purpose be confounded.

Augustine, Confessions

So I was confounded, and converted: and I joyed, O my God, that the One Only Church, the body of Your Only Son (wherein the name of Christ had been put upon me as an infant), had no taste for infantine conceits; nor in her sound doctrine maintained any tenet which should confine You, the Creator of all, in space, however great and large, yet bounded every where by the limits of a human form.

Augustine, Confessions

You have chosen the weak things of the world to confound the strong; and the base things of this world, and the things despised have You chosen, and those things which are not, that You might bring to nought things that are.

Augustine, Confessions

Ay, beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough

Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 1, Act 5, Scene 3

Swear your love Lest he that is the supreme King of kinds Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end

Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 2, Scene 1

Piety, and fear, Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth, Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood, Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades, Degrees, observances, customs, and laws, Decline to your confounding contraries, And let confusion live!

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act 4, Scene 1

If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 8