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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Mystification

· Mys·ti·fi·ca·tion · IPA
01 n. The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.
  1. 1.
    The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.
    “The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace.” De Quincey.