Bemuse

[With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies.

the bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves

With regard to definition-writing students, as a result of having spent years padding out written assignments in order to meet word-length requirements, were somewhat bemused to be told that fewer words were better than a long, wordy definition.

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

a parson much be-mus'd in beer

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

[…] more innocently, and no doubt profitably, than if he had dined at a big-wig's board or bemused himself with smoke and beer among his brethren of the pen.