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In"tri*cate (?), a. [L. intricatus, p. p. of intricare to entangle, perplex. Cf. Intrigue, Extricate.] Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
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His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness.
Addison.
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The nature of man is intricate.
Burke.
Syn. -- Intricate, Complex, Complicated. A thing is complex when it is made up of parts; it is complicated when those parts are so many, or so arranged, as to make it difficult to grasp them; it is intricate when it has numerous windings and confused involutions which it is hard to follow out. What is complex must be resolved into its parts; what is complicated must be drawn out and developed; what is intricate must be unraveled.
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In"tri*cate (?), v. t. To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing. [Obs.]
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It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise discourses.
Jer. Taylor.
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