Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN'TRI-CA-CY
IN'TRI-CA-CY, n. [from intricate.]
The state of being entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; as, the intricacy of a knot, and figuratively, the intricacy of accounts, the intricacy of a cause in controversy, the intricacy of a plot. Addison.
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