confusion (1 is common in S., now obs.)
1.
overthrow,
ruin, destruction Mac. III. v.
29; as an imprecation
Lr. II. iv. 96
“Vengeance! plague!
death! confusion!.”
2.
mental agitation
Mer.V. III. ii. 178
“there is such confusion
in my powers,”
Ham. III. i. 2.
3.
pl. disorders,
commotions Rom. IV. v. 66.