imbrangle

English

Verb

imbrangle (third-person singular simple present imbrangles, present participle imbrangling, simple past and past participle imbrangled)

1. Archaic form of embrangle.
   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

     They're catch'd in knotted law, like nets;
     In which, when once they are imbrangled,
     The more they stir, the more they're tangled.

   • c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Henry More

     […] their physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic and a misgrowth of entia rationalia, that is, substantiated abstractions […]

References

“imbrangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.