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extricate, v.|ˈɛkstrɪkeɪt|
[f. L. extrīcāt- ppl. stem of extrīcāre to disentangle, f. ex- (see ex- prefix1) + trīcæ perplexities.]
1. trans. To unravel (what is tangled); fig. to clear of intricacies or perplexities. Now rare.
1614Selden Titles Hon. 384 Neither do I see any Ciuilian able to extricat it enough cleanly. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 40 This..extricateth that Question which hath so troubled the World. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 350 Thou extricatest the involved threds of Fate. 1684Ray Corr. (1848) 139 Extricating what is perplex and entangled. 1849–50Alison Hist. Europe III. xvii. §14. 496 Some method of extricating public affairs.
2. To disentangle (a person or thing); to disengage, set free from, out of (anything that entangles, a state of confinement, difficulty, or entanglement).
a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 181 If we search farther into these points than the Scripture hath opened us a way, how shall we hope to..extricate ourselues? 1654True State Commw. 24 The sense of law could neuer have been extricated out of endless intanglements. 1665R. Hooke Micrographia 37 All the Springs of the several parts..immediately extricate themselves and fly asunder every way. a1732T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 12 A thicket, out of which he knows not how to extricate himself. 1794Sullivan View Nat. V. 388 Extricate yourselves from prejudice. 1863F. A. Kemble Resid. Georgia 46 Having at length extricated myself from the group. 1866Owen Anat. Vertebrates I. xii. §120. 635 The rest [of the development of the embryo] is completed and the young extricated in..two months. 1870Disraeli Lothair vii, Lothair had promised to extricate his friend from his overwhelming difficulties.
b. Chem. To liberate, disengage (gas, etc.) from a state of combination.
1790Keir in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 365 The quantity of nitrous gas extricated during this action on the tin. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 19 The atom of water may be extricated from the acid. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 557 The carbonic acid and other offensive gases..extricated.
Hence ˈextricated ppl. a.
1657Reeve God's Plea 29 If man which is but an implicated and mixt Agent, how much more God [may lord it], who is an extricated and free Agent? |