Consternate vs Perplex - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between consternate and perplex

is that consternate is to cause consternation while perplex is to cause to feel baffled; to.

(obsolete) intricate; difficult.

(consternat)

To cause consternation

To dismay

(es)

To cause to feel baffled; to .

To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.

* John Locke

What was thought obscure, perplexed , and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.

(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.

(Glanvill)

* See also

(en adjective)

(obsolete) intricate; difficult

(Glanvill)

(Webster 1913)

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