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▪ I. † inˈtrinsicate, a. Obs.
Also intrinsecate.
[app. f. It. intrinsecato, -sicato familiar, confused in sense with intricato intricate.]
= intricate, involved, entangled.
1560Whitehorne Arte Warre (1573) 40 a, Seeming unto them..partly an intrinsicate matter [viluppo] whiche they understande not. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, I confesse you to be of an apted and docible humour; yet there are certain puntilioes, or (as I may more nakedly insinuate them) certain intrinsecate strokes and wards, to which your activitie is not yet amounted. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie (To iudiciall Perusers), I knowe hee will vouchsafe it, some of his new-minted Epithets, (as Reall, Intrinsecate, Delphicke). 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 307 [To the Asp]: Come thou mortal wretch, With thy sharpe teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once vntye: Poore venomous Foole, Be angry, and dispatch.
▪ II. † inˈtrinsicate, v. Obs.
[f. It. intrinsecare, † -sicare, refl. intricarsi ‘to become familiar, friendly, or inward with one’ (Florio), f. intrinseco, † -ico intimate, familiar: see -ate3.]
intr. ? To enter intimately.
1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 82 To heare how some such clouting beetles rowle in their loblogicke, and intrinsicate into the maior of the matter, with such hide⁓bound reasons. |