in tri cation

[Latin in tri cat us, pa. par. of int rico to entangle.] Entanglement, intricacy, complication. In trigue', s. [Fr. intrigue; Sp. intriga ; Ital. in trigo.] [INTRIGUE, v.] 1. Intricacy, complication. "Though this vicinity of ourselves to ourselves cannot give us the full prospect of all the intrigues of our nature, yet we have much more advantage to know ourselves, than to know other things without us."-Hale: Orig. of Man kind . 2. The act of intriguing or plotting by secret and underhand ways or means; a plot or scheme of an intricate or complicated nature, intended to effect some object by secret arts. "Busy meddlers with intrigues of state." Pomfret: The Choice. 3. The plot of a play, romance, fable, .; a complicated scheme of actions and events intended to excite the interest of the reader or audience, and make them look forward eagerly to the development of the plot. "As causes are the beginning of the action, the opposite designs against that of the hero are the middle of it, and form that difficulty or intrigue which makes up the greatest part of the poem."-Pope. (Todd.) 4. Illicit intimacy between persons of different sexes: a liaison; libertinism. "Nor yet the swarms that occupy the brain, Where dreams of dre , intrigue , and pleasure reign." Cowper : Ketirement , 642, In-trigue, v . t . & i . [Old Fr. intriguer ; Fr. in "A gentleman of the Inns of Court, and a deep in triguer."- Tatler , No. 193.