† intriˈcation Obs.
[ad. med.L. intrīcātiōn-em, n. of action from intrīcāre (see intricate a.); cf. F. intrication (14th c. in Godef.).]
The action of intricating or condition of being intricated; complication, entanglement.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 9 Attendenge the intricacion inextricable [inextricabilem attendens intricationem] of this labor presente as of the mase of Dedalinus. 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 615/2 For the auoydyng of all intricacion wherof, I purposelye forbare to putte in the Pope as parte of the diffinicyon of the church. 1548 Patten Exp. Scot. in Arb. Garner III. 120 It should be too much an intrication to the matter. 1579 Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. ii. Ep. Ded. 160 a, The indissoluble knottes and intrications of matters. 1661 Boyle Examen Wks. 1772 I. 240, I do not see how the motus circularis simplex should need to be superadded to the contact or intrication of the cohering firm corpuscles, to procure a cohesion. 1773 J. Ross Fratricide iii. 732 (MS.) Much delay'd, Thus dark, by intrications in their way, And many a mazy Labyrinth. |