(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:31:20

In"tri*ca*cy (?), n.; pl. Intricacies (#). [From Intricate.]

The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.

Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. Milton.

 

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