† enˈtrike, v. Obs.
Also 5–6 entryke, (6 entriek), 5 intrike.
[a. OF. entriqu-er, intriquer = Pr. entricar, intricar, ad. It. intricare, var. of intrigare (see intrigue):—L. intrīcāre, f. in in + trīcæ quirks, tricks. Cf. intricate, intrigue.
In Ital. intrigare (see intrigue) is the form of the inf. required by phonetic law; but in other parts of the vb. the forms intrico, intrica, etc. are normal, and the c was introduced into the inf. by analogy.]
1. trans. To entangle (a person), ensnare, beguile.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 421 To dispence and assoile men of synnes, þat ben entrikid wiþ sich ritis. c 1381 Chaucer Parl. Foules 403 But which of ȝow, that loue most entrikyth. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy Prol., His misty speche..intriketh readers that it see. 1496 Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) li. 91/1 Moche of my nacyon is entryked and blente with such fantasyes. 1530 Palsgr. 538/2 He that his entryked with wordly busynesse is nat mete to be a studyent. 1545 Udall Erasm. Par. (1548) Luke xi. 34 In case the iye of thy bodye be corrupted..then shall all the whole bodye be entrieked. |
2. To make (a sentence) entangled; to complicate, involve.
| 1393 Gower Conf. I. 358 That he the worde entriketh, That many a man of him compleigneth. c 1430 Lydg. Stor. Thebes 2892 His Cleer conceyte..Nat entryked with no doublenesse. 1545 Udall Erasm. Par. (1548) Luke viii. 99 a, Entrieked or wrapped in derke parables. 1549 Coverdale ibid. Rom. Argt., The same [sentences] are oftetymes, as a man maye saye, entriked or entangled. |