intricable
English
Etymology
From Middle French intrincable, from Latin intrīcō (“I entangle”).
Adjective
intricable (comparative more intricable, superlative most intricable)
- (obsolete) Intricate, entangled.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):, New York, 2001, p.110:
- A labyrinth of intricable questions, unprofitable contentions, incredibilem delirationem, one calls it.
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