disconcert

t. [O. Fr. disconcerter: dis = apart, and concerter =to concert.] 1. To throw or put into disorder; to disturb, to disarrange, to discompose. 2. To baffle, foil, or defeat a plan, design, .; to frustrate. "Had not his crafty schemes been disconcerted."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xvi. 3. To confound, to confuse, to put out of countenance, to discompose. "James now took a step which greatly disconcerted the whole Anglican party." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. For the difference between to disconcert and to baffle , see BAFFLE; for that between to disconcert and to disorder , see DISORDER.