imbrangleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

imbrangle (三人称単数 現在形 imbrangles, 現在分詞 imbrangling, 過去形および過去分詞形 imbrangled)

1. Archaic form of embrangle.
   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: At the University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346:

     They're catch'd in knotted law, like nets;
     In which, when once they are imbrangled,
     The more they stir, the more they're tangled.