Gordian

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 176

g 'dl-an. a. Pert, to Gordius, king of Phr3rphangia, or to a knot tied by him, which could not be untied, but was cut by Alexander the Great; hence, in deity; tricate; complicated; difficult. -IT, a.