extricare

1 extricare v. estreciare

2 extricare [CL] , to loosen, disentangle, unravel; b (fig.). c to resolve. d to prepare, clear. indumenta ‥ numquam vetustate ~abantur Aldh. VirgP 38 p. 287; 10‥ ~abatur, tolesed wæran WW; Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 195 (v. exsolvere 1a).  b a984 ~ans ‥ Domini cultura criminum spurcitias, virtutum semine sedulus agricola inserui (Æthelwold Ch.) Conc. Syn. 124; monachus iste ‥ muliebrem tricam firmos ~antem animos et infirmos intricantem ‥ rapere ‥ curavit Gir. Spec. II 8.  c ~abatur, terminabatur, resolvebatur; ‥ ~abuntur, terminentur GlH E 569, 571; ~are, solvere vel terminare Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 201.  d anne illa [anima], cum hospitium suum [sc. corpus] ~aret, cavaret, extenderet, materiam quidem, unde hec faceret, habebat? Adel. QN 43.