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mizmaze
noun 2
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2ADJ.
all, modern, perplexing, trying
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in
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noun
1
A maze or labyrinth.
In the perplexing mizmaze of the modern residence, in the undue attention to the multiplex mysteries of the modern wardrobe, in the multiform engagements of the modern individual, the family is losing its identity.
So the young man took the end of the silken string in his left hand, and his gold-hiked sword, ready drawn from its scabbard, in the other, and trod boldly into the inscrutable labyrinth. How this labyrinth was built is more than I can tell you, but so cunningly contrived a mizmaze was never seen in the world, before nor since. There can be nothing else so intricate, unless it were the brain of a man like Dædalus, who planned it, or the heart of any ordinary man
2
A state of bewilderment.
"Not a bit of it," responded our friend. "They come along so fast that I was all in a mizmaze trying to keep track on 'em.[…]"
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In the perplexing mizmaze of the modern residence, in the undue attention to the multiplex mysteries of the modern wardrobe, in the multiform engagements of the modern individual, the family is losing
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So the young man took the end of the silken string in his left hand, and his gold-hiked sword, ready drawn from its scabbard, in the other, and trod boldly into the inscrutable labyrinth. How this lab
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"Not a bit of it," responded our friend. "They come along so fast that I was all in a mizmaze trying to keep track on 'em.[…]"
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