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labyrinthine, a.|læbɪˈrɪnθaɪn, -ɪn|
[f. labyrinth n. + -ine.]
1. Pertaining to, or of the nature or form of, a labyrinth; having or consisting of many intricate turnings or windings.
1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 99 These Laborinthing Seas. 1747Spence Polymetis (L.), She [Ariadne] preserved him in the labyrinthine mazes of Crete. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam i. 53 The long and labyrinthine aisles. 1837Howitt Rur. Life ii. vi. (1862) 163 The midges are celebrating their airy and labyrinthine dances with an amazing adroitness. 1863N. Hawthorne Our old Home 240 The lanes, alleys and strange labyrinthine courts. 1863H. W. Bates Naturalist on Amazon iv. 132 A large flat Helix with a labyrinthine mouth. 1872Nicholson Palæont. 351 The parietes of the teeth are deeply plaited and folded, so as to give rise to a complicated ‘labyrinthine’ pattern in the transverse section of the tooth. 1876Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) I. 172 Your labyrinthine magnificence at Burlington House.
2. fig. Intricate, complicated, involved, inextricable.
1840De Quincey Style i. Wks. 1890 X. 158 To follow the discussion through endless and labyrinthine sentences. 1853F. W. Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. iv. (1872) 45 An entangled, labyrinthine enigma. 1865Sat. Rev. 7 Jan. 16/1 [Browning] is apt to entangle the reader in labyrinthine thoughts.
3. Pertaining to the labyrinth of the ear.
1876Clin. Soc. Trans. IX. 101 Labyrinthine disease. |