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entangled, ppl. a.|ɛnˈtæŋg(ə)ld|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
In the senses of the vb.: a. Caught or held fast in anything tangled; ensnared. b. Involved in difficulties; embarrassed, perplexed. †c. Of an estate: Encumbered (obs.). d. Interlaced; complicated, intricate.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 30 Such as in Scripture are to our capacitie doubtfull and entangled. 1598J. Dickenson Greene in Conc. (1878) 134 Now wrought she on his intangled wits as on an anuill. 1653Milton Hirelings Wks. (1851) 384 The obscure and intangl'd Wood of Antiquity. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. i. §7 Nothing can bee a greater evidence of an intangled mind. 1670Marvell Let. Mayor of Hull Wks. I. 160 The discourses growing long and intangled, one of the members..rose up. 1680Burnet Rochester 167 To recover an intangled Estate. 1735Somerville Chase i. 160 Seek'st thou for Hounds to..brush th' Entangled Covert? 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. (1819) 47 All the entangled cords in order placed. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 329 Heaps of entangled conveyances or wills of a various obscurity. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. ii. 121 A somewhat entangled and delicate question. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xx. (1875) 440 Each deposit must be differently distributed by the entangled currents.
Hence † enˈtangledly adv., in an entangled manner. † enˈtangledness, the state of being entangled.
1611Cotgr., Perplexement, perplexedly, intricately, intangledly, troublesomely. 1687H. More Contn. Remark. Stor. 428 It was usual with these Goblins..to wind all this Yarn on these old pieces of Lumber, so perplexedly and entangledly. 1611Cotgr., Perplexité, intanglednesse. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 241 Much of that intangledness which we find now in astronomy, would be taken away. |