单词 | disembroil |
释义 | disemˈbroil, v. [f. dis- 6 + embroil; cf. Sp. desembrollar (Minsheu); also 16th c. F. desbrouiller.] trans. To free from embroilment or confusion; to extricate from confusion or perplexity, to disentangle.
1611Florio Disbrogliare, to disimbroile. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 137 To disimbroyle our selues of this troublesome businesse. 1681Char. Illustr. Court-Favourite 16 The knowledg of things past..That Light which disembroils the intrigues of the Court. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. 142 To disembroil a Subject that seems to have perplexed even Antiquity. 1830Mackintosh Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 72 It is little wonderful that Cumberland should not have disembroiled this ancient and established confusion. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. vi. 22 Let him but decently disembroil himself, Scramble from out the scrape. |

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