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† eˈnodate, v. Obs.
[f. L. ēnōdāt- ppl. stem of ēnōdā-re, f. ē out + nōd-us knot.]
trans. To free from knots; also fig. to unravel, clear of difficulties.
1656Blount Glossogr., Enodate, to unknit, to cut away the knot, to declare or make manifest, to untie. 1681Relig. Clerici 51 When they cannot enodate your argument, they serve you..the same trick that Alexander did with the Gordian knot.
Hence † enoˈdation, the action of loosing or unravelling.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1024 Thus much for the enodation of this knot. 1623Cockeram, Enodation, a declaration. 1653W. Sclater 2nd Fun. Serm. (1654) 28 Scarcely any thing, that way, proved too hard for him, for his enodation or descision. 1736in Bailey. |