Sentence:  I am now, in order the better to <WSD>confound</WSD> your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.