v. [f. EN-, IN- + BRANGLE v.1] trans. To entangle, confuse, perplex.

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1664.  Butler, Hud., II. iii. 19. In knotted Law, like Nets … they are imbrangled.

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1689.  Trial, Pritchard v. Papillon, 6 Nov. 1684, 26. These things … imbrangled by our Factions and Divisions.

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1710.  Berkeley, Princ. Hum. Knowl., I. § 98. 143. I am lost and embrangled in inexplicable Difficulties.

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1811.  Coleridge, Lett., in J. P. Collier’s 7 Lectures (1856), 57. The perplexities with which … I have been thorned and embrangled.

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1872.  Morley, Voltaire (1886), 62. Physical explanations … were imbrangled with theology and metaphysics.

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