Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Entangled; perplexed. Also intrinsecate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Intricate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete intricate

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Examples

  • 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

  • [To an asp, which she applies to her breast] With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate

    Antony and Cleopatra 1606

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