perplex
verbEtymology
From Old French, from Latin perplexus (“entangled, confused”), from per (“through”) + plexus, perfect passive participle of plectō (“plait, weave, braid”).
Definitions
To cause to feel baffled
To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
To involve
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
- What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
- The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]
To plague
To plague; to vex; to torment.
- Chloe's the wonder of her sex, 'Tis well her heart is tender, How might such killing eyes perplex, With virtue to defend her.
- All night no ruder air perplex Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright As our pure love, thro’ early light Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
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intricate
intricate; difficult
- How the soul directs the spirits for the motion of the body, according to the several animal exigents, is as perplex in the Theory, as either of the former.
- Finally, I explore possible audience interpretations of the film and offer some alternative reading strategies of these highly perplex sketches.
A difficulty.
The neighborhood
- neighborperplexable
- neighborperplexation
- neighborperplexed
- neighborperplexedness
- neighborperplexing
- neighborperplexity
- neighborperplexment
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at perplex. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at perplex. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at perplex
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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