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English
Verb
imbrangle (third-person singular simple present imbrangles, present participle imbrangling, simple past and past participle imbrangled)
- Archaic form of embrangle.
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. , London: John Martyn and Henry Herringman, , published 1678; republished in A R Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: 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.