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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