intricable
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French intrincable, from Latin intrīcō (“I entangle”).
Adjective
editintricable (comparative more intricable, superlative most intricable)
- (obsolete) Intricate, entangled.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York, 2001, p.110:
- A labyrinth of intricable questions, unprofitable contentions, incredibilem delirationem, one calls it.