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  • verb Present participle of nonplus.

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  • And this can never be done, but by imprinting upon his judgment such apprehensions of dread and terror, as may stave off an eager and luxurious appetite from its desired satisfactions, which the infinite wisdom of God has thought fit in some measure to do, by nonplusing the world with certain new and unaccountable revelations of himself and the divine methods of a mysterious religion.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823

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