[A]ltering Vaudemont, to Vallemontanus, and metamorphoſing them, by ſuting them to the Græcian or Latin tongue, we know not what to make of them, and are often at a non-plus.
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Nonplus
//nɒnˈplʌs//
Synonyms for "nonplus" (173 found)
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23 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- затруднявам verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- обърквам verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 使困惑 verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
Czech
1 entries- zaskočit verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
Finnish
3 entries- askarruttaa verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- hämmentää verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- saattaa ymmälle verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
German
3 entries- verblüffen verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- verdutzen verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- verwirren verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
Greek
2 entries- μπερδεύω verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- σαστίζω verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
Hungarian
2 entries- elképeszt verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- meghökkent verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
Māori
1 entries- whakahēhē verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
Polish
2 entries- konsternować verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- skonsternować verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
Portuguese
1 entries- pasmar verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
Russian
2 entries- запутывать verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- озадачивать verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
Spanish
3 entries- confundir verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- desconcertar verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
- perplejar verb (to bewilder or perplex (someone))
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Being now made much abler to make their queries, of the ſecrets of that myſtery, by how much their often failings, had put them to often ſtops and nonpluſſes in the work.
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And if both of them are at a perfect Non-plus, and Baffle to all Humane Underſtanding; is it poſſible for Natural Reaſon to comprehend what the Heart of Man cannot conceive?
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I believe they'd ſoon be put to a non-plus—You'd be quite too much for them, I'm ſure.
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