ĭn-extrīcābĭlis

I. that cannot be disengaged or disentangled, inextricable (poet. and post-Aug.).

I. Lit.: error (of the mazes of the labyrinth, from which one could not find his way out), Verg. A. 6, 27: cortex, that cannot be disengaged or separated. Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 188: litus, Sil. 4, 584.—

II. Trop.: errores, Lact. 3, 17, 17: Stomachi inextricabilia vitia, Plin. 20, 21, 86, § 232: perfectio, id. 11, 2, 1, § 2.—* Adv.: ĭnextrīcābĭlĭter, inextricably: contorta fatorum licia, App. M. 11, p. 269, 37.