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intricacy|ˈɪntrɪkəsɪ|
[f. next: see -acy.]
1. The quality or state of being intricate; complexity; complicated or involved condition.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 366 Our..Method wherein we now execute lawes and dispatch, with lesser intricacie, the Collections and businesses for the Weale publike. 1619Naunton in Fortesc. Papers (Camden) 107 It is a buisines of much intricasie. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. (1721) I. Ess. 201 It often puzzles the Reader with the Intricacy of its Notions. 1711Addison Spect. No. 39 ⁋3 The modern Tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome, in the Intricacy and Disposition of the Fable. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty v. 28 The beauty of a composed intricacy of form. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 247 The mathematical theory of the propagation of sound..is one of the utmost intricacy. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xx. 512 The lock must have varied in value, according to its size and to the intricacy of its workmanship.
2. quasi-concr. An instance of this condition; a complication; an entangled or involved state of affairs; a perplexing difficulty.
1611Cotgr., Intrique, an intricacie, Laborinth, Maze,..difficultie. 1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 255 Cut off these intricacies: set downe a time, beyond which no controuersie shall depend in Court. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 487 Because the sun doth not so much dry the intricacies of such flowers which are duplicated. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 606 Twelve palaces, and 1000 houses, the intricacies of which occasion its name. 1821Scott Kenilw. viii, He conducted Tressilian..through a long intricacy of passages. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. ix. 316 Every intricacy was plainly mapped out in his own mind. |