in-extrīcābilis, e, adj. 2. in-extrico, that cannot be disengaged or disentangled, inextricable (poet. and post-Aug.). 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, where one cannot disembark, Sil. 4, 584.
— Trop.: errores, Lact. 3, 17, 17: Stomachi inextricabilia vitia, incurable, Plin. 20, 21, 86, § 232: perfectio, inexplicable, indescribable, id. 11, 2, 1, § 2.
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* Adv.: inextrīcābiliter, inextricably: contorta fatorum licia, App. M. 11, p. 269, 37.