Middle English Dictionary Entry
intrīcāte adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | intrīcāte adj. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Physically entangled or enmeshed; (b) complex in structure; (c) involved or complicated in meaning, hard to understand.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)42a/b : If it [boicium] be fre & noȝt intricate [*Ch.(2): wrapped; L intricatum] with veynez & arteriez, be þe skyn kut & discarnisshed or flayne.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)86b/a : A fistle tortuose & intricate [*Ch.(2): a croked festre] is neuer slayne bot if it be imbibed with bitter..liquorez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)88a/a : Of cure palliatif when forsoþ þe cancre is..in placez intricate [*Ch.(2): fastened] with veynez & neruez.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)126b/a : Þe eie is of intricate [*Ch.(2): folden; L intricate] composicioun.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)81b/a : Of sayingez of þe letter of Auicen ynow or mych intricate [L intricate], it is concluded þat vlcerez of þe extremiteez..ar perilous.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)85b/a : Þof al þe letture of G. þere be intricate [*Ch.(2): harde to vnderstonde] ynoȝ.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)99a/a : Bot þe lettur is intricate [*Ch.(2): entriked] And perauenture yuel founden in exemplerez of grecus.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)142a/a : G. in comento giffeþ þe cause [of death from gibbosity], þof al the coment in grec translacioun be intricate.