v. Obs. [f. L. ēnōdāt- ppl. stem of ēnōdā-re, f. ē out + nōd-us knot.] trans. To free from knots; also fig. to unravel, clear of difficulties.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Enodate, to unknit, to cut away the knot, to declare or make manifest, to untie.
1681. Relig. Clerici, 51. When they cannot enodate your Argument, they serve you with a distinction the same trick that Alexander did with the Gordian knot.
Hence † Enodation, the action of loosing or unravelling.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1024. And thus much for the enodation of this knot.
1623. Cockeram, Enodation, a declaration.
1653. W. Sclater, 2nd Fun. Serm. (1654), 28. Scarcely any thing, that way, proved too hard for him, for his enodation or descision.
1736. in Bailey.
