v. Obs. Also 5–6 entryke, (6 entriek), 5 intrike. [a. OF. entriqu-er, intriquer = Pr. entricar, intricar, ad. It. intricare, var. of intrigare (see INTRIGUE):—L. intrīcāre, f. in in + trīcæ quirks, tricks. Cf. INTRICATE, INTRIGUE.
In Ital. intrigare (see INTRIGUE) is the form of the inf. required by phonetic law; but in other parts of the vb. the forms intrico, intrica, etc., are normal, and the c was introduced into the inf. by analogy.]
1. trans. To entangle (a person), ensnare, beguile.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 421. To dispence and assoile men of synnes, þat ben entrikid wiþ sich ritis.
c. 1381. Chaucer, Parl. Foules, 403. But which of ȝow, that loue most entrikyth.
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, Prol. His misty speche … intriketh readers that it see.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), li. 91/1. Moche of my nacyon is entryked and blente with such fantasyes.
1530. Palsgr., 538/2. He that his entryked with wordly busynesse is nat mete to be a studyent.
1545. Udall, Erasm. Par. (1548), Luke xi. 34. In case the iye of thy bodye be corrupted … then shall all the whole bodye be entricked.
2. To make (a sentence) entangled; to complicate, involve.
1393. Gower, Conf., I. 358. That he the worde entriketh, That many a man of him compleigneth.
c. 1430. Lydg., Story Thebes, 2892. His Cleer conceyte … Nat entryked with no doublenesse.
1545. Udall, Erasm. Par. (1548), Luke viii. 99 a. Entricked or wrapped in derke parables.
1549. Coverdale, ibid. Rom., Argt. The same [sentences] are oftetymes, as a man maye saye, entriked or entangled.
