bemuse

To confuse or bewilder.

[With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies.

the bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves

To be amused, especially sardonically.

To devote to the Muses.

When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd

To make drunk; to intoxicate.

a parson much be-mus'd in beer

This old man generally bemused himself in beer, once a fortnight.