unperplex
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
unperplex (third-person singular simple present unperplexes, present participle unperplexing, simple past and past participle unperplexed)
- (transitive) To free from perplexity.
- a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Ecstasy”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
- This Extasie doth unperplex
(We said) and tell us what we love
References[edit]
“unperplex”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.