disemˈbroil, v.
[f. dis- 6 + embroil; cf. Sp. desembrollar (Minsheu); also 16th c. F. desbrouiller.]
trans. To free from embroilment or confusion; to extricate from confusion or perplexity, to disentangle.
| 1611 Florio Disbrogliare, to disimbroile. 1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 137 To disimbroyle our selues of this troublesome businesse. 1681 Char. Illustr. Court-Favourite 16 The knowledg of things past..That Light which disembroils the intrigues of the Court. 1741 Warburton Div. Legat. II. 142 To disembroil a Subject that seems to have perplexed even Antiquity. 1830 Mackintosh Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 72 It is little wonderful that Cumberland should not have disembroiled this ancient and established confusion. 1868 Browning Ring & Bk. vi. 22 Let him but decently disembroil himself, Scramble from out the scrape. |