Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Intricate; entangled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Very rare Tightly drawn; or (perhaps) intricate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete, nonce word Tightly drawn; or (perhaps)
intricate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Which are too intrinse t unloose; smooth every passion
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And sometimes, not having the fear of poetical, or rather of unpoetical precisians and martinets before his eyes, he did not even scruple to naturalize words for his own use from foreign springs, such as exsufflicate and deracinate; or to coin a word, whenever the concurring reasons of sense and verse invited it; as in fedary, intrinse, intrinsicate, insisture, and various others.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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Which are too intrinse t 'unloose; smooth every passion
King Lear 1605
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Which are too intrinse t’ unloose; smooth every passion
King Lear 2004
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"too intrinse t'unloose," has quite outlived the memories of his countrymen.
The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885
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Con - tra vero si executio medij sit actio externa nullum respiciens intrinse - cum fineni, sed indiiFerens, ut ex hoc, aliove fine ponatur) ad diver - sas virtutes revocari potest pro diversitate finium) quos sibi voluntas in electione praefigat.
Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792
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