disintricatev.
transitive. To free from intricacy or complication; to disentangle, unravel, extricate.
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the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > disentangle
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disintricate1598
unentangle1610
disinvolve1611
elaqueate1656
disentangle1660
dismingle1669
unscramble1923
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Districare, to free..to disintricate, to vntangle.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desmeslement,..a loossing..vnpestering, disintricating.
1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. iii. iv. 371 The knowledge of the true God..disintricated from the confusion of so many false Deities.
1830 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 162 To disintricate the question, by relieving it of these two errors.
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