befooling

Verb

befool (third-person singular simple present befools, present participle befooling, simple past and past participle befooled)

1. (archaic, transitive) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).
   • Nothing doth so befoole a man as extreme passion; this doth both make them fooles, which otherwise are not; and show them to be fooles that are so […]1605, Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall, London: John Porter, section 63