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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Befooled

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Befooling

[OE.

befolen

; pref.

be-

fol

fool.]

To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.

This story . . . contrived to

befool

credulous men.

Fuller.

To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish.

“Some befooling drug.”

G. Eliot.

Verb.

[be and fool.] To fool; to infatuate; to delude or lead into error.

Men befool themselves.