A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Perplexit, p.p. and ppl. a. [Late ME. and e.m.E. perplexid (1477), -ed (1529), appar. altered f. perplex Perplex a. See also Proplexit ppl. a.] Perplexed.a. Of a person: Bewildered; confused. b. Of a route: Intricate, complicated, confusing.a. a1500 Henr. Fab. 964 (Bann.).
Perplexit thus in to his mynd [the fox] can mene With falsheid quhow [etc.] 1535 Stewart 16210.
Lang so he wes perplexit in his mynd Syne at the last concludit [etc.] a1538 Abell 29 b.
And sa he wes perplexit in that doutsum thing Ib. 101 a.
This gentill knytht … wes woundit with naturall pete and perplexit quhat he suld do 1607 Melvill 703.
He wes so perplexit and daschit that he had not a word to speikb. 1513 Doug. ix. vii. 50.
Tharwith this ilk wilsum perplexit way Bakwart he held
