† intricationn.
Obsolete.
The action of intricating or condition of being intricated; complication, entanglement.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity
intrication?a1475
intricatenessa1586
intricacy1602
engagement1642
anfractuosity1645
complicateness1656
intrigue1656
implicateness1685
complexedness1690
complexness1727
complexity1790
complicacy18..
subtlety1815
complicatedness1818
complicity1847
Byzantinism1945
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] > making complicated
intrication?a1475
perplexinga1649
intricating1649
involuting1884
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 9 Attendenge the intricacion inextricable [L. inextricabilem attendens intricationem] of this labor presente as of the mase of Dedalinus.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in 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 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. H.viij It shold be to much an intricacion to the matter.
1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune ii. Ep. Ded. 160 a The indissoluble knottes and intrications of matters.
1661 R. Boyle Examen Mr. T. Hobbs in 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 (MS) iii. 732 Much delay'd, Thus dark, by intrications in their way, And many a mazy Labyrinth.
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